The American Philosophical Association is pleased to announce that Professor Tyler Burge (UCLA) will deliver the 2021 Sanders Lecture at the 2021 Eastern Division meeting in New York, NY.
The Sanders Lecture was established in 2013 to honor a distinguished scholar in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology who engages the analytic tradition. It is generously funded by the Marc Sanders Foundation. The lecture, which includes a $3,500 monetary award plus travel costs not to exceed $1,500, is offered every year at an APA divisional meeting on a rotating basis.
The chair of the selection committee said, “Burge has made contributions to many areas of philosophy, including the philosophy of mind, philosophy of logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and the history of philosophy. He is probably best known for his work on Gottlob Frege, his views on de re belief, anti-individualism with respect to mental content, and his empirically informed account of objective reference.”
Tyler Burge was educated at Wesleyan University (BA–summa cum laude, 1967) and Princeton University (PhD, 1971). He has taught at UCLA since 1971, with visiting teaching stints at London, MIT, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, Munich, Barcelona, and Bayreuth. He has authored articles in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, epistemology, philosophy of language and logic, and history of philosophy (Descartes, Kant, Frege). Two books of essays on his work with replies are Reflections and Replies: Essays on the Philosophy of Tyler Burge, Hahn and Ramberg eds. (MIT Press, 2003); and Meaning, Basic Self-Knowledge, and Mind, Frapolli and Romero eds. (CSLI Publications, 2003). The first three of several projected volumes of his essays are Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege (2005), Foundations of Mind (2007), and Cognition Through Understanding (2013)—all Oxford University Press (OUP). In 2010, he published Origins of Objectivity with OUP. A new book. Perception: First Form of Mind, is forthcoming from OUP. He is past president of the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division and a current member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy, Institut International de Philosophie, and American Philosophical Society. He has given the Locke Lectures at Oxford, Dewey Lectures at Columbia, Nicod Lectures in Paris, and many other named lecture series. Seventeen conferences have been devoted entirely to his work in seventeen cities on four continents. His interests include history, literature, psychology, biology, classical music, wine, basketball, traveling, and hiking. He has a forbearing wife, two sane sons, and one insane cat.
