Tyler Burge

Tyler Burge (/bɜːrdʒ/; born 1946) is an American philosopher who is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at UCLA.

[1] He earned his PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1971 where he worked with Donald Davidson and John Wallace.

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.

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

[9] The book was described by one reviewer as "an absolutely terrific work, conceived and executed at a scale and level of ambition rarely seen in contemporary philosophy.

"[10] Another reviewer described it as "imperious" and "poorly written", offering "broad but shallow surveys of the sensory and perceptual powers of animals and infants".

A collection of his writings on Frege, along with a substantial introduction and several postscripts by the author, has been published (Burge, 2005).