Speaker: Tyler Burge (UCLA)
Tyler Burge is Flint Professor of Philosophy at UCLA. He is best known for his defense of anti-individualism (externalism), the view that the contents of many mental states depend partly on a person’s social and physical environment. His contributions span the philosophy of mind, language, and epistemology, as well as the history of philosophy (especially Frege and the rationalist tradition). This position has had a major impact on debates in the philosophy of mind, language, and cognitive science. Burge has written influentially on self-knowledge, perception, memory, reasoning, testimony, and entitlement, and has developed a detailed account of perceptual representation in his books Origins of Objectivity (2010) and Perception: First Form of Mind (2022).
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Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
The meeting will be held in English.
Participation is strongly recommended for students of the Doctoral School in Philosophy and Human Sciences and for students of the Doctoral School “The Human Mind and its Explanations: Language, Brain, and Reasoning”.
Where: Online
When: 21/01/2026 – 17:00 CET
Attendance: Attendance is free and open to all, but registration is needed by email [angelica.kaufmann@unimi.it]