Martin Davies
- Name: Martin Davies
- Location: Melbourne
- School: University of Melbourne
- Subject Area: Theory of Knowledge
Martin Davies was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1960. He holds doctorates in Philosophy
from the University of Adelaide (2002) and Flinders University (1994) and teaching
qualifications from Cambridge University. He won the H. J. Allen Prize in Philosophy
from the University of Adelaide in 2002. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Higher
Education in the Teaching and Learning Unit, Faculty of Economics and Commerce at
the University of Melbourne, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of
Economics. Martin is the author of two other philosophy books: Experience and Content:
Consequences of a Continuum Theory (Ashgate, 1996) and The Philosophy of Sir William
Mitchell (1861-1962): A Mind’s Own Place (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) as well
as articles in journals as diverse as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, the Australasian
Journal of Philosophy, and Australian Economic Papers. His current research interests
overlap areas in Education and Philosophy, especially issues associated with the
teaching of critical thinking, reasoning and argument, and intercultural differences
in inference patterns. He is currently doing work on systemic biases in the use
of teaching evaluation instruments with a team of educators and econometricians.
Martin in married to a Malaysian citizen, Alice, has one son, and lives in Melbourne.