13 Facts About Tyler Burge

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Tyler Burge is an American philosopher who is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UCLA.

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In 1967, Tyler Burge received his bachelor of arts from Wesleyan University.

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Tyler Burge earned his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1971 where he worked with Donald Davidson and John Wallace.

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Tyler Burge joined the UCLA faculty that year, and has taught there ever since, with visiting professorships at Stanford University, Harvard University, and MIT.

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Tyler Burge is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1993 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy since 1999.

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Tyler Burge was the recipient of the 2010 Jean Nicod Prize.

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Tyler Burge argues in a similar fashion that a person's beliefs are dependent on the physical world.

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Tyler Burge argues that the difference in the thoughts is attributable to the difference between the nature of stuffs in the respective physical environments.

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Tyler Burge has extended the thesis of anti-individualism into the realm of the theory of vision, arguing that the contents of representations posited by a computational theory of vision, such as that pioneered by David Marr, are dependent on the environment of the organism's evolutionary history.

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Tyler Burge has argued that it presents no problems for our understanding of causation.

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Tyler Burge published his first book-length monograph in 2010, offering a philosophical account of perception heavily informed by empirical psychology.

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Tyler Burge is perhaps most well known for his contributions to the philosophy of mind, including his views on de re belief and, most notably, anti-individualism with respect to mental content, which is known as externalism, the view that the content of one's thoughts depends partly on the external environment.

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Since 1978, four of Tyler Burge's articles have been chosen as among "the ten best" of the year by The Philosopher's Annual.