Tyler Burge
| Tyler Burge | |
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| Born | 1946 |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
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philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, epistemology |
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Notable ideas
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anti-individualism |
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Tyler Burge (/bɜːrdʒ/; born 1946; Ph.D., Princeton University, 1971) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. Burge has made contributions to many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy.
Burge earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University where he worked with Donald Davidson and John Wallace. He joined the UCLA faculty that year, and has taught there ever since, with visiting professorships also at Stanford University, Harvard University, and MIT. He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 1999. He was the recipient of the 2010 Jean Nicod Prize.
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". 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).
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