Michael G. F. Martin
Michael Martin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
| Education | University of Oxford (PhD) |
| Awards | Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy (1985) |
| 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 | Naïve 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[edit]
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, who retired.
Philosophical work[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ "The Sophisticated Naïve: An Interview with Michael G. F. Martin" (in Norwegian Bokmål).
- ^ "Corpus Christi College Oxford - Fellows". www.ccc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018.
- ^ "The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy". www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
- ^ "Corpus Christi College Oxford - Fellows". www.ccc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018.
- ^ "The Sophisticated Naïve: An Interview with Michael G. F. Martin".
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