Philosopher
Tim Crane
Overview
Timothy Martin Crane (born 17 October 1962) is a British philosopher specialising in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of perception, philosophy of psychology and metaphysics.
His contributions to philosophy include a defence of a non-physicalist account of the mind; a defence of intentionalism about consciousness; a defence of the thesis that perceptual experience has nonconceptual content; a psychologistic approach to the objects of thought; and a defence of the thesis that intentionality is the mark of the mental. He is currently the Head of Department and Professor of Philosophy at Central European University, and was previously the Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Peterhouse. For the academic year 2020–21 he was a visiting professor at the University of Lugano.
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Philosophers who discussed Tim Crane
- Isaiah Berlin
- Language of thought hypothesis
- Hugh Mellor
- John Foster (philosopher)
- Peter Menzies (philosopher)
- Paul Snowdon
Ideas Tim Crane discusses
- Western philosophy
- Analytic philosophy
- Intentionality
- Metaphysics
- The Times Literary Supplement
- Philosophy of perception
- University of Cambridge
- Consciousness
- Philosophy of mind
- Contemporary philosophy
- Hugh Mellor
- Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of metaphysics.