Martin Davies is Emeritus Wilde Professor of Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy from 1993 to 2000 and then took up a Professorship in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, returning to Oxford as Wilde Professor from 2006 until he retired in 2017. He is an Adjunct Professor at Monash University (where he was an undergraduate in philosophy and mathematics, 1968–72).

His research interests are in philosophy of mind and cognitive science, with his most recent work including a series of papers with Max Coltheart on Charles Sanders Peirce, abduction, belief formation, and delusions; and collaborations with Anne Aimola Davies on anosognosia for motor impairments, inattentional blindness, and the parasagittal-mirror version of the rubber hand illusion.

He is a Fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

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Sonatina in Red & Green (triptych), acrylic on canvas, 75x75cm, 2010  ©Andrea McCuaig 2010. Photo credit: RLDI.