Martin Davies (philosopher)

Martin Davies (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.

(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.

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