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9Meaning, Quantification, Necessity: Themes in Philosophical LogicRoutledge. 1981.Originally published in 1981. This is a book for the final year undergraduate or first year graduate who intends to proceed with serious research in philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by both lecturers and students for its careful consideration of main themes ranging from Gricean accounts of meaning to two dimensional modal logic. The first part of the book is concerned with the nature of the semantic theorist's project, and particularly with the crucial concepts of meaning, truth, and sem…Read more
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9Ethics briefingJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (6): 441-442. 2021.During the first UK wave of the pandemic, there were two areas of immediate ethical concern for the medical profession. The first was the possibility that life-saving resources could be overwhelmed. Early reports from hospitals in the Italian city of Bergamo suggested that ventilatory support might need rationing and emergency ‘battlefield’ triage was a real possibility.1 In the UK, several professional bodies, including the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Physicians rapidly…Read more
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9Two hands are better than one: A new assessment method and a new interpretation of the non-visual illusion of self-touchConsciousness and Cognition 20 (3): 956-964. 2011.A simple experimental paradigm creates the powerful illusion that one is touching one’s own hand even when the two hands are separated by 15 cm. The participant uses her right hand to administer stimulation to a prosthetic hand while the Examiner provides identical stimulation to the participant’s receptive left hand. Change in felt position of the receptive hand toward the prosthetic hand has previously led to the interpretation that the participant experiences self-touch at the location of the…Read more
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9Ethics briefingsJournal of Medical Ethics 36 (11): 716-718. 2010.In August, Amnesty International and the World Medical Association expressed concern at reports that a judge in Saudi Arabia had asked several hospitals in the country whether they could perform an operation to damage a man's spinal cord as punishment for attacking another man and leaving him paralysed. The man had already been sentenced to seven months imprisonment for the crime, the injured victim requested the further sentence under Sharia Law, which is strictly enforced across Saudi Arabia. …Read more
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8A Peircean Pathway from Surprising Facts to New BeliefsTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 56 (3): 400-426. 2020.ARRAY.
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8Glyn Humphreys: Attention, Binding, Motion‐Induced BlindnessMind and Language 32 (2): 127-154. 2017.Glyn Humphreys' research on attention and binding began from feature‐integration theory, which claims that binding together visual features, such as colour and orientation, requires spatially selective attention. Humphreys employed a more inclusive notion of binding and argued, on neuropsychological grounds, for a multi‐stage account of the overall binding process, in which binding together of form elements was followed by two stages of feature binding. Only the second stage of feature binding, …Read more
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7Thinking about the Enlightenment (edited book)Thinking about the Enlightenmentlooks beyond the current parameters of studying the Enlightenment, to the issues that can be understood by reflecting on the period in a broader context. Each of the thirteen original chapters, by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, illustrates the problematic legacy of the Enlightenment and the continued ramifications of its thinking since the eighteenth century. Together, they consider whether modernity can see its roots in the intellect…Read more
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6Ethics BriefingJournal of Medical Ethics 46 (12): 845-846. 2020.At the time of writing the COVID-19 pandemic was entering its ninth month, with nearly 800 000 recorded fatalities and 22 million infections in 188 countries and territories.1 In previous ethics briefings2 we raised concerns about the possibility that demand for life-sustaining treatment would overwhelm supply, with a consequent requirement for health professionals to make challenging triage decisions. Fortunately, to date, these have largely not been realised, although there is a possibility th…Read more
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6Ethics briefingsJournal of Medical Ethics 36 (9): 574-576. 2010.Proponents of fetal rights argue that, from the moment of conception, a fetus has significant human rights. There are degrees of opinion, however, about the scope of those rights, with some arguing that, in certain circumstances, such as where the conception is the result of rape, the mother's rights predominate. Others argue that the fetus' rights are absolute and should override the woman's right to life and health so that pregnancies cannot be terminated, even to save women's lives. Various c…Read more
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6Multiple Review of Norton Nelkin's Consciousness and the Origins of Thought: IntroductionMind and Language 12 (2): 178-180. 1997.
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6Review: Hugues Leblanc, D. Gabbay, F. Guenthner, Alternatives to Standard first-order Semantics (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 54 (4): 1483-1484. 1989.
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5Identity Or History?: Marcus Herz and the End of the EnlightenmentWayne State University Press. 1995.Martin Davies draws parallels between Herz's personal life and Prussian politics and culture to make sense of the end of the eighteenth century when Enlightenment tradition and Romantic thought coincided.
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5The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself and in fact can be seen to have lasted from the late sixteenth century to the present day. In the course of the study, Martin Davies offers an original world-view and a critique of some recent interpretations of the Enlightenment.
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4How history works: the reconstitution of a human scienceRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2016.The situation of historical knowledge: the historicized world -- The technology of historical knowledge: management-systems -- The logic of historical knowledge: causality, rationality, identity -- The organization of historical knowledge: categorical coordinators; rhetorical strategy -- The purpose of historical knowledge: comprehension.
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3Tacit knowledge and subdoxastic statesIn A. George (ed.), Reflections on Chomsky, Blackwell. 1989.
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2Tacit knowledge and the structure of thought and languageIn Charles Travis (ed.), Meaning and interpretation, Blackwell. 1986.
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2Gedanken zu einem ambivalenten Verhältnis: Marcus Herz und Immanuel KantIn Ralph Schumacher, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Volker Gerhardt (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des Ix. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses. Bd. I: Hauptvorträge. Bd. Ii: Sektionen I-V. Bd. Iii: Sektionen Vi-X: Bd. Iv: Sektionen Xi-Xiv. Bd. V: Sektionen Xv-Xviii, De Gruyter. pp. 140-147. 2001.
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1Consciousness and explanationIn Lawrence Weiskrantz & Martin Davies (eds.), Frontiers of Consciousness: Chichele Lectures, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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1Review: Virgil and the Myth of Venice. Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (review)The Classical Review 51 (2): 367-369. 2001.