Michael Martin

My work lies in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology, although I also have an interest in the history of early modern and early analytic philosophy.

My research has principally been in the philosophy of perception. Much of this has circled round two of the oldest and most disreputable arguments in the Western tradition: the argument from illusion and the causal argument from hallucination, but it has on occasion ranged more widely than just these narrow concerns: on the nature of memory, on the nature of self-awareness and self-knowledge. I’ve also long been concerned with the relations among the senses and as part of that interested in the awareness that each has of his or her own body.

In Oxford, I divide my time between the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Experimental Psychology. But I also spend every Fall semester (Michaelmas Term) as Mills Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.