Stephen John Davies is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
[2] He is a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics (2007–2008), and the New Zealand division of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (2001).
[3] One of Davies's first journal publications was 'The Expression of Emotion in Music', published in Mind in 1980 (Vol.
However, Davies developed his view independently as an undergraduate in the 1970s, and the theory was part of his PhD thesis awarded in 1976 from the University of London.
[5] Davies also maintains a research interest in ethnomusicology, which he studied as an undergraduate,[6] particularly the aesthetics of Balinese music.