Martin Davies (philosopher)
Martin Davies FASSA FAHA (born 1950) is a British philosopher who is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford where he taught from 2006 until 2017.[1] He works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology and philosophy of psychology and cognitive science.
Education and career
[edit]Davies was an undergraduate at Monash University and then earned B.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees at Oxford University, working with Gareth Evans, Christopher Peacocke and Dana Scott.[2] He taught at the University of Essex, Birkbeck College, London, and was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at Oxford from 1993 to 2000. He then took up a Professorship at the Australian National University before returning to Oxford in 2006 as the Wilde Professor.[3] He retired from that position in 2017.
He is an elected Fellow of both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[4]
Selected publications
[edit]- (1980) "Two notions of necessity," Philosophical Studies 38: 1–30 (with Lloyd Humberstone).
- (1981) "Meaning, structure, and understanding," Synthese 48: 135–161.
- (1987) "Tacit knowledge and semantic theory: Can a five per cent difference matter?" Mind 96: 441–462.
- (1991) "Individualism and perceptual content," Mind 100: 461–484.
- (1995) "Consciousness and the varieties of aboutness," in C. Macdonald & G. Maconald (eds), Philosophy of Psychology: Debates on Psychological Explanation (Oxford: Blackwell), 356–392.
- (1997) "Externalism and experience," in N. Block, O. Flanagan & G. Güzeldere (eds), The Nature of Consciousness (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), 309–327.
- (2000) "Externalism and armchair knowledge," in P. Boghossian & C. Peacocke (eds), New Essays on the A Priori (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 384–414.
- (2004) "Epistemic entitlement, warrant transmission, and easy knowledge," Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 78: 213–245
- (2005) "Cognitive science," in F. Jackson & M. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 358–394.
- (2010) "Double dissociation: understanding its role in cognitive neuropsychology," Mind and Language 25: 500–540.
References
[edit]- ^ "Prof Martin Davies - Faculty of Philosophy". Philosophy.ox.ac.uk. 4 July 2012. Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^ Biography – Martin Davies
- ^ "Martin Davies". www.mkdavies.net. Archived from the original on 2 March 2015.
- ^ "Martin Davies, Ph.D. | Nour Foundation".
External links
[edit]- Interview with Martin Davies about "delusions"
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