REX MARTIN, Professor of Philosophy
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REX MARTIN, Department of Philosophy The University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7590 USA dept. phone: (785) 864-3976 or (785) 864-2334 fax: (785) 864-4298, home phone: (913) 236-4084 INTERNET E-mail address: [email protected] or [email protected] ________________________________________________________________________ Education Ph.D. Columbia University, 1967, in philosophy M.A. Columbia University, 1960, in philosophy B.A. Rice University, 1957, "with honors in History" Post-Graduate study, University of Edinburgh (Scotland), 1965-66, in theology and philosophy Positions University of Kansas, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1968-70, Associate Professor, 1970-73, Professor, 1973-2009, Professor Emeritus, 2009- , Chair, 1972-78 Lycoming College (Pa.), Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1966-68 Purdue University, Instructor in Political Science, 1962-65 Columbia University, Lecturer in Philosophy, 1961-62 Visiting (V) or Joint (J) Teaching Appointments University of Helsinki (Finland), Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy, 14 April - 13 May 2000 (V) University of Wales Swansea (U.K.), Professor of Political Theory and Government, Department of Politics, Spring Semesters 1995-2000 (J) University of Sydney (Australia), Professor of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, Second Semester 1992 (V) University of Auckland (New Zealand), Professor of Philosophy, middle term, July 1-August 15, 1981 (V) Mount Vernon College (D.C.), Washington Summer Program, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Summer 1965 (V) Honors and Awards Visiting Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Finland), 1 April - 15 May 2008 Research Fellow, National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC), 2004-05 (William C. and Ida Friday Senior Fellow) Cardiff University (Wales), Distinguished Visiting Professorial Fellow, June 2005; Honorary Professor in Politics and International Studies, 2002-07, reappointed 2007-2012, 2012-, originally in the School of European Studies (and now in the School of Law and Politics) Research Grant, Academy of Finland, 14 April - 13 May 2000 Christensen Fellow, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, Trinity Term (April - mid July) 1999 Visiting Research Fellow (Royal Bank of Scotland Fellow), Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), April - June, 1991 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), Spring 1984 Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1983-84 Scholar in Residence, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center (Italy), June 1980 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grants, August 1979, August 1983 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, January 1 - June 30, 1976 Fulbright Research Fellow, University of Helsinki (Finland), Institute of Philosophy, December 15, 1972 - August 15, 1973 National Endowment for the Humanities, 1971 Summer research award Grant from the Society for Religion in Higher Education, taken at New College, University of Edinburgh (Scotland), 1965-66 Danforth Graduate Fellow, 1957-62 Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellow, 1957-58 Phi Beta Kappa, elected 1956 April 2015 R. Martin 2 Honors and Awards (cont.) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Career Achievement Teaching Award, 2009 Morrison Award for Excellence in Teaching Philosophy (University of Kansas), awarded 2008, for period Spring 2009 & academic year 2009-2010 Center for Teaching Excellence (University of Kansas), undergraduate teaching award (Philosophy), 2002 Balfour Jeffrey Research Achievement Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences (one of four Higuchi Awards, University of Kansas), 1999 Humanities Lecture (University of Kansas), 1993 Research Fellowship, Hall Center for the Humanities (University of Kansas), 1986-87 Byron T. Shutz Award for Distinguished Teaching on Economic Systems (University of Kansas), 1983-84; Shutz Award Lecture, 1983 Intrauniversity Visiting Professor, School of Law (University of Kansas), 1981-82 (position funded as part of a grant to the College of Arts and Sciences from the Exxon Foundation, appointment included one month of summer support, June 1981) Humanist in Residence, School of Business (University of Kansas), Spring 1979 (position funded as part of a grant to the Business School from the National Endowment for the Humanities) University of Kansas General Research Fund Grants, Summers of 1970-1980, 1982, 1984-1989, 1993, 2004 Watkins Faculty Fellowship (University of Kansas), Summer 1969 Selected for "Best Teacher Award" in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Purdue), 1965 Areas of Special Interest Political and Legal Philosophy, History of Political Thought, Philosophy of History Publications: Books Historical Explanation: Re-enactment and Practical Inference. Contemporary Philosophy Series. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1977. Chinese translation--Beijing: Beijing Publishing House, 2005. Rawls and Rights. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1985 (reprinted in paperback, 1986). Ch. 2 ("A Theory of Justice and Rights") reprinted in Jennifer Smith (ed.), Nonfiction Classics for Students. Vol. 3. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2002, pp. 307-321. A System of Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993 (reprinted in paperback, 1997). The complete English-language text, together with abstracts of the entire System of Rights book and of each individual chapter (all abstracts written in 2003), put on line by OUP in 2003, at Oxford Scholarship Online. Spanish translation--Barcelona: Gedisa, 2001. Ch. 11 ("The Right of Inmates to Work") reprinted in John Kleinig (ed.), Prisoners' Rights. The International Library of Essays on Rights series. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 309-336. Publications: Books (Edited) G. C. MacCallum, Legislative Intent, and Other Essays on Law, Politics and Morality. Mark Singer (co-editor), with a preface and an introduction by the co-editors. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Rights. Gerhard Sprenger (co-editor), Proceedings of the 17th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), Bologna, Italy (1995), vol. 1 (ARSP Beiheft no. 67). Stuttgart, Germany: F. Steiner Verlag, 1997. R. G. Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics. Revised Edition, with an Introduction and with additional material edited by Rex Martin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998 (reprinted in paperback, 2002). Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia? David Reidy (co-editor), with a preface and an introduction by the co-editors. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. This book was one of Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006. R. Martin 3 Publications: Articles and Chapters "Civil Disobedience," Ethics 80.2 (January 1970), 123-139. Reprinted in L. Habermehl (ed.), Morality in the Modern World: Ethical Dimensions of Contemporary Human Problems. Encino, CA: Dickenson, 1976, pp. 319-333. "On the Logic of Justifying Legal Punishment," American Philosophical Quarterly 7.3 (July 1970), 253-259. "Socrates on Disobedience to Law," Review of Metaphysics XXIV.1 (September 1970), 21-38. "The World Spirit," Southwestern Journal of Philosophy II.1 and 2 (1971), 153-161. "A Defence of Mill's Qualitative Hedonism," Philosophy XLVII (April 1972), 140-151. Reprinted in G. W. Smith (ed.), John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments. Vol. 1 (Social Ethics). London: Routledge, 1998, pp. 99- 110. "The Two Cities in Augustine's Political Philosophy," Journal of the History of Ideas XXXIII.2 (April-June 1972), 195-216. Reprinted in part in (a) J. Losco and L. Williams (eds.), Political Theory: Classic Writings, Contemporary Views. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1992, pp. 123-131 and in (b) Joe Losco and Leonard Williams (eds.), Political Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings. Vol. I. 2d ed. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Co, 2003 (distributed by Oxford University Press since 2007). Reprinted in full in Richard O. Brooks and James Bernard Murphy (eds.), Augustine and Modern Law. Ashgate Philosophers and Law series. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011, pp. 45-66. "The Problem of Other Cultures," with F. Allan Hanson (co-author), Philosophy of the Social Sciences 3.3 (September 1973), 191-208. "Conscientious Actions and the Concept of Civil Disobedience," in P. A. French (ed.), Conscientious Actions: The Revelation of the Pentagon Papers. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman/General Learning Press, 1974, pp. 36-52. "Wolff's Defence of Philosophical Anarchism," Philosophical Quarterly 24 (April 1974), 140-149. "Collingwood's Essay on Philosophical Method," Idealistic Studies 4.3 (September 1974), 224-250. "Two Models for Justifying Political Authority," Ethics 86.1 (October 1975), 70-75. "Explanation and Understanding in History," in J. Manninen & R. Tuomela (eds.), Essays on Explanation and Understanding. Synthese Library. Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel, 1976, pp. 305-334. "On the Justification of Political Authority," in R. Baine Harris (ed.), Authority: A Philosophical Analysis. University, AL: University of Alabama Press, 1976, pp. 54-75. "The Problem of the 'Tie' in Von Wright's Schema of Practical Inference: A Wittgensteinian Solution," in J. Hintikka (ed.), Essays on Wittgenstein in Honour of G. H. Von Wright. Acta Philosophica Fennica 28.1 through 3 (1976), 326-363. "Intuitionism and the Practical Syllogism in Aristotle's Ethics," Apeiron 11.2 (December 1977), 12-19. "Anarchism and Skepticism," in J. R. Pennock and J. W. Chapman (eds.), Anarchism. NOMOS series (Yearbook