Michael G. F. Martin
Michael Martin | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of Oxford (PhD) |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | The context of experience (1992) |
Main interests | philosophy of mind |
Notable ideas | naive realism |
Michael Gerard Fitzgerald Martin (born 1962) is a British philosopher[1] who is currently Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Mills Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley.[2]
Education and career[]
Martin studied at Oxford University where he won The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy in 1985 and earned his D.Phil. in 1992.[3] He joined the faculty at University College London in 1992, and was promoted to Professor of Philosophy there in 2002.[4] He became Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy in 2018, succeeding Martin_Davies_(Philosopher) who retired.
Philosophical work[]
Martin works in philosophy of mind, specifically perception. He defends "naive realism" "the view that perception constitutively involves relations of awareness of the ordinary, mind-independent world around us."[5]
References[]
- ^ "The Sophisticated Naïve: An Interview with Michael G. F. Martin" (in Norwegian Bokmål).
- ^ https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows-2/f/66/
- ^ "The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy". www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ https://www.ccc.ox.ac.uk/Fellows-2/f/66/
- ^ https://filosofisksupplement.no/the-imporance-of-being-naive-an-interview-with-michael-g-f-martin/
- British philosophers
- Philosophy academics
- Living people
- 1962 births
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford
- Academics of University College London
- Philosophers of mind
- Wilde Professors of Mental Philosophy
- British philosopher stubs