Undergraduate: PPE; Maths and Philosophy; Computer Science and Philosophy; Philosophy and Modern Languages; Philosophy, Psychology and Linguistics.
Graduate: BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy
Academic Background
Prof Davies completed the BPhil and DPhil in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford. During the DPhil, he was a Jowett Senior Scholar at Balliol and then a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. Following that, he had stints as a postdoc at the University of Antwerp and the University of Oxford. From January 2017-August 2019, he was a lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He took up his current post at St Anne’s in September 2019.
Research Interests
Prof Davies works in the philosophy of mind – including philosophy of psychology and psychiatry – and related areas of epistemology and metaphysics. His main research interests concern colour perception and social explanation in psychiatry.