Martin Davies (philosopher)
Martin Davies is Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford since 2006.[1] He works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, epistemology and philosophy of cognitive science.
Education and Career
Davies did undergraduate study at Monash University and then earned B.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees at Oxford University, working with Gareth Evans (philosopher), Christopher Peacocke and Dana Scott. 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. [2]
Philosophical Work
Selected Publications
- (1980) "Two notions of necessity," Philosophical Studies 38: 1-30 (with Lloyd Humberstone).
- (1981) "Meaning, structure, and understanding," Synthese 48: 135-161.
- (1986) "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 Universityi Press), 384-414.
References
- ↑ "Prof Martin Davies - Faculty of Philosophy". Philosophy.ox.ac.uk. 2012-07-04. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
- ↑ http://www.mkdavies.net/Martin_Davies/Bio.html
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