Professor Charles Travis

Charles Travis received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963, and his Ph. D. from UCLA in 1967. He has taught in the U.S., Canada, The Netherlands, and the U. K., having spent most of his career in the last 3 countries.

Before coming to King’s, he was a professor at Northwestern University, and before that at the University of Stirling. He has taught at many other places, including visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, and at Harvard.

He works on a set of problems about thought, representation and experience, spanning parts of philosophy of perception, of psychology, of language, of logic, and epistemology. He has been most influenced by, among the recent dead, Wittgenstein and Austin; and, among the living, Hilary Putnam, John McDowell and Noam Chomsky.

His last books are Thought's Footing; A Theme in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and Occasion-Sensitivity; Selected Essays .

He speaks Dutch/Flemish, some French, and bits of Cantonese and Portuguese.

He gave his inaugural lecture on Thinking about Thinking (pdf, 143KB) in King's last year.

Personal webpage:  http://sites.google.com/site/charlestraviswebsite

Contact Details:
Telephone: 020 7848 2093
Email: charles.travis@kcl.ac.uk