Martin Davies studied philosophy and mathematics at Monash University before moving to Oxford as a BPhil and then DPhil student at New College. He taught at the University of Essex for a year (1976-77) and was then a Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College, Oxford before moving in 1981 to Birkbeck College, London. In 1993, he became Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at Oxford (a position linking philosophy and psychology) and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He took up his present position as Professor of Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences in July 2000.

Martin Davies works in the areas of philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind and language, and epistemology. He was one of the founding editors of the journal Mind and Language and one of the founders of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. In recent years he has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the Universlty of California, Los Angeles. In 2003 he delivered the Carl G. Hempel Lectures at Princeton University and in 2005 the seventh Weatherhead Lecture in Philosophy of Language at Tulane University. 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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