Michael G. F. Martin

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]

Not to be confused with Michael Lou Martin.

Michael Martin
Born1962 (age 60–61)
EducationUniversity of Oxford (PhD)
AwardsHenry Wilde Prize in Philosophy (1985)
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisThe context of experience (1992)
Main interests
Philosophy of mind
Notable ideas
Naïve realism

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, 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
  1. "The Sophisticated Naïve: An Interview with Michael G. F. Martin" (in Norwegian Bokmål).
  2. "Corpus Christi College Oxford - Fellows". www.ccc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018.
  3. "The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy". www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
  4. "Corpus Christi College Oxford - Fellows". www.ccc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 April 2018.
  5. "The Sophisticated Naïve: An Interview with Michael G. F. Martin".


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