Michael Gerard Fitzgerald Martin (born 1962) is a British philosopher who is currently

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at the

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and Mills Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at

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Education and career

Martin studied at

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where he won The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy in 1985 and earned his

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in 1992. He joined the faculty at

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in 1992, and was promoted to Professor of Philosophy there in 2002. He became

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 {{UK-philosopher-stub