Michael G. F. Martin should not be confused with Michael Lou Martin.
| Region: | Western philosophy |
| Era: | 21st-century philosophy |
| Michael Martin | |
| School Tradition: | Analytic |
| Institutions: | University of Oxford |
| Main Interests: | Philosophy of mind |
| Thesis Title: | The context of experience |
| Thesis Url: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=2&uin=uk.bl.ethos.335721 |
| Thesis Year: | 1992 |
| Notable Ideas: | Naïve realism |
| Education: | University of Oxford (PhD) |
| Awards: | Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy (1985) |
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]
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.
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]