Tyler Burge
Tyler Burge | |
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Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
Alma mater |
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Doctoral students | Linda Zagzebski |
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Notable ideas | Anti-individualism |
Tyler Burge (
Education and career
In 1967, Burge received his
Philosophical work
Anti-individualism
Burge has argued for anti-individualism. In Burge's words, anti-individualism is a theory that asserts the following: “individuating many of a person or animal’s mental kinds … is necessarily dependent on relations that the person bears to the physical, or in some cases social, environment".[8] This view, and some variants, has been called "content externalism", or just "externalism." Burge favors "anti-individualism" over this terminology, in part because he considers the central issue to be what individuates content, rather than where contents may be located, as "externalism" may suggest. (Burge 2003, 435–6).
Burge argues in a similar fashion that a person's beliefs are dependent on the physical world. In his thought experiment he attempted to demonstrate that all thoughts and beliefs have wide contents.
In “The Meaning of Meaning” (1975), Putnam had argued that the meaning of a
Burge has extended the thesis of anti-individualism into the realm of the
Anti-individualism about
Origins of Objectivity
Burge published his first book-length monograph in 2010, offering a philosophical account of perception heavily informed by empirical psychology.[9] The book was described by one reviewer as "an absolutely terrific work, conceived and executed at a scale and level of ambition rarely seen in contemporary philosophy."[10] Another reviewer described it as "imperious" and "poorly written", offering "broad but shallow surveys of the sensory and perceptual powers of animals and infants".[11]
Other philosophical work
In the
Bibliography
Books
- 2005. Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-927853-9.
- 2007. Foundations of Mind. Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-921623-1.
- 2010. Origins of Objectivity. Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-958140-5.
- 2013. Cognition Through Understanding: Self-Knowledge, Interlocution, Reasoning, Reflection. Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-967203-5.
- 2022. Perception: First Form of Mind. Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-887100-2.
Articles (selected)
- 1977. "Belief De Re". The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 74, No. 6, pp. 338–362.
- 1979. "Sinning against Frege". The Philosophical Review, Vol. 88, No. 3, pp. 398–432.
- 1979. "Individualism and the Mental". Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4: 73–121.
- 1982. "Other Bodies". In Woodfield, Andrew, ed., Thought and Object. New York: Oxford.
- 1986. "Individualism and Psychology." Philosophical Review 45: 3-45.
- 1986. "Frege on Truth". in Haaparanta & Hintikka (1986).
- 1986. "Intellectual Norms and Foundations of Mind". The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 83, No. 12, pp. 697–720.
- 1988. "Individualism and Self-Knowledge". The Journal of Philosophy 85: 649–663.
- 1989. "Individuation and Causation in Psychology". Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70: 303–322.
- 1990. "Frege on Sense and Linguistic Meaning". in Bell & Cooper (1990).
- 1992. "Frege on Knowing the Third Realm". Mind, Vol. 101, pp. 633–650.12, pp. 697–720.
- 1993. "Content Preservation". The Philosophical Review, Vol. 102, No. 4, pp. 457–488.
- 1996. "Our Entitlement to Self-Knowledge". Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 96 (1996), pp. 91–116.
- 2003. "Reply to Loar". In Hahn and Ramberg (1991).
- 2003. "Perceptual Entitlement". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 67, pp. 503–548.
- 2003. "Memory and Persons". The Philosophical Review, Vol. 112, No. 3, pp. 289–337.
Notes
- ^ "Tyler Burge - Faculty". Department of Philosophy - UCLA. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ^ "Tyler Burge - Faculty".
- ^ "Tyler Burge - Faculty".
- ^ "American Academy of Arts and Sciences | UCLA".
- ^ "Sections - British Academy". www.britac.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-07-06.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ^ http://129.199.13.77/seminaires-colloques/conferences-et-prix-jean-nicod/archives/tyler-burge-2010/?lang=en
- . Retrieved 26 December 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-19-958140-5.
- ^ Begby, Endre (28 February 2011). "Origins of Objectivity".
- . Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ "Home". philosophersannual.org.
References and further reading
- Bell, David & Cooper, Neil (eds.). 1990. The Analytic Tradition, Oxford: Blackwell.
- Fodor, Jerry. 1991. "A Modal Argument for Narrow Content". The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 88, No. 1, pp. 5–26.
- Haaparanta, Leila & Hintikka, Jaakko (eds.). 1986. Frege Synthesized. Boston: D. Reidel.
- Hahn, Martin and Bjørn Ramberg (eds.). 2003. Reflections and Replies: Essays on the Philosophy of Tyler Burge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- McKinsey, Michael. 1991. "Anti-Individualism and Privileged Access". Analysis 51: 9–16.
- Maria J. Frapolli and Esther Romero (eds.). 2003. Meaning, Basic Self-Knowledge, and Mind: Essays on Tyler Burge, CSLI Publications, ISBN 1-57586-346-4.