Michael Gerard Fitzgerald Martin (born 1962) is a British philosopher who is currently
Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy
The Wilde Professorship of Mental Philosophy is a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Its holder is elected to a Fellowship of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Corpus Christi College.
The position was initially established in 1898 as a ...
at the
University of Oxford
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and Mills Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at
UC Berkeley
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.
Education and career
Martin studied at
Oxford University
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where he won
The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy in 1985 and earned his
D.Phil.
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in 1992. He joined the faculty at
University College London
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in 1992, and was promoted to Professor of Philosophy there in 2002. He became
Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy
The Wilde Professorship of Mental Philosophy is a chair in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Its holder is elected to a Fellowship of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Corpus Christi College.
The position was initially established in 1898 as a ...
in 2018, succeeding
Martin Davies, who retired.
Philosophical work
Martin works in
philosophy of mind
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that studies the ontology and nature of the mind and its relationship with the body. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of mind, although a number of other issues are addre ...
, specifically perception. He defends "naive realism" "the view that perception constitutively involves relations of awareness of the ordinary, mind-independent world around us."
References
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
Henry Wilde Prize winners
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