Michael Gerard Fitzgerald Martin (born 1962) is a British philosopher[1] who is currently Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Mills Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley.
[2] Martin studied at Oxford University where he won The Henry Wilde Prize in Philosophy in 1985 and earned his D.Phil.
[3] He joined the faculty at University College London in 1992, and was promoted to Professor of Philosophy there in 2002.
[4] He became Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy in 2018, succeeding Martin Davies, who retired.
He defends "naive realism", "the view that perception constitutively involves relations of awareness of the ordinary, mind-independent world around us.