Tim Crane | |
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 Crane at a seminar on consciousness on 17 February 2016 | |
| Born | 17 October 1962 |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Durham (BA) University of York (MA) Peterhouse, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Content and Causation of Thought (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jeremy Butterfield Hugh Mellor |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | King's College London University College London Institute of Philosophy University of Cambridge Central European University |
| Main interests | Philosophy of mind,metaphysics |
| Website | www |
Timothy Martin Crane (born 17 October 1962 [1] ) 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 non-conceptual 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. [2]
