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Michael G. F. Martin

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Michael Martin
Born1962 (age 61–62)
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

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

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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

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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

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  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".