Michael Tye (philosopher)

Michael Tye is a philosopher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. His work focuses on the philosophy of mind and the basis for debate in cognitive science.

Tye represents a materialist theory of mind, which systematically va on the notion of representation. Also qualia, the subjective experience levels of consciousness should be explained as part of a representational theory.

Tye also has an important contribution to Imagery debate in cognitive science done. This dispute revolves around the question of how pictorial idea is to interpret scientifically. While representatives of the classical cognitivist approach (especially Zenon Pylyshyn ) represent a propositional theory explains about Stephen Kosslyn that pictorial presentation of direct visual perception is quite similar. Tye tries to mediate between these positions.