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Christopher Martin: curriculum vitae 1

General information Full name: C.F.J. Martin Nationality: British

Address for correspondence: Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas, 3800 Montrose Blvd, Houston TX, 77006 U.S.A. Tel.: +1 713 831 7292; Fax: +1 713 942 3464

Professional record Present position: Professor, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas, Houston.

Degrees B.A., Oxford. Congratulated first class in (, Ancient History, ) 1979. B. Phil in Philosophy, Oxford, 1981. D.Phil., Oxford, May 1984. Thesis: “A distinction between two notions of existence in the writings of St ”. Supervisor: Prof. P. T. Geach

Prizes, Scholarships, etc. College Exhibition, 1975-79; College Prize 1979; Senior State Scholarship, 1979-1982

Linguistic competence Ancient Greek, , Spanish, Italian, French. Some palaeographic skills and experience.

Academic career Professor, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas, Houston, 1999-present Lecturer, University of Glasgow, 1989-1999 College lecturer, Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1988-89 Part-time temporary lecturer, University of Edinburgh, 1987-1988 Temporary lecturer, University of Glasgow 1986 - 1988 Profesor visitante, University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain, 1984-1986

Publications Books 1. Thomas Aquinas: and Explanations, Edinburgh U. P., 1997, 212 + xx pp. 2. Robert Grosseteste On the Six Days of Creation: Oxford U. P. for the British Academy, 1996. Translation, with footnotes and an introduction, 373 + ix pp. 3. An Introduction to : Edinburgh U. P. , 1996, 148 pp. 4. The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Introductory Readings: Routledge, London 1988, 201 pp.

Articles Forthcoming: Christopher Martin: curriculum vitae 2

1. “Is there of person between a human being and a separated ?” forthcoming in Studi Tomiste, Iasi, Romania 2. “A practical analogue to Sapientia”, forthcoming in Studi Tomiste, Iasi, Romania

Published 1.”’Secondo una descrizione’: la relattività della spiegazione della intenzionalità e dell’etica in G.E.M. Anscombe” [“‘Under a ’: relativity of explanation in causality, and in G.E.M. Anscombe”] in Mercado, J.A. (ed.), Elizabeth Anscombe e il rinnovamento della psicologia morale, Rome 2010, Armando Editore, ISBN 978-88-6081-716-7 2. “The relativity of goodness: a prolegomenon to a rapprochement between and natural law theory” in González, A. M. (ed.) Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law: Natural Law as a Limiting Concept, Ashgate, Aldershot 2007. ISBN: 07546 6054 0 3. “ and Aquinas on the teleology of parts and wholes”, Tópicos, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, no. 27, 2004. 4.“The fact-value distinction” in Human Values: New Essays on Ethics and Natural Law, Oderberg, D., and Chappell, T, eds., Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, Houndmills, Hants., UK ISBN 1-4039-1810-4 5. “Usury and unnatural vice” in Restoring Nature: Essays in Thomistic Philosophy and , Ed. Michael M. Waddell, St Augustine’s Press, 2004, South Bend, Indiana ISBN: 1-58731-726-5. 6. “Esse ut verum: Aristotle, and Aquinas”, in Aquinas’s Sources Ed. Timothy L. Smith, St Augustine’s Press, 2004, South Bend, Indiana ISBN: 1-58731-027-9. 7. “Voluntary and non-voluntary causality”, in Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions, ed. J. J. Haldane, South Bend, Indiana, University of Notre Dame Press, 2002 8. “Conceptions of Reason” in and Reason, ed. Timothy L. Smith, South Bend, Indiana,: St Augustine’s Press 2001, pp. 230-234. 9. “ and the Future of Catholic Philosophy – a response”, New Blackfriars, Vol. 80 no. 938, 1999 10. “Medieval philosophy”, invited contribution to Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, edd. E. James and N. Bunnin, Oxford: Blackwell’s 1996. pp. 500-508. 11. “On a mistake commonly made in accounts of sixteenth-century discussions of the immortality of the soul”, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. LXIX, 1, 1995; pp. 29-37. 12. “Are there virtues and vices that relate specifically to the sexual life?”, Acta Philosophica, Rome, Vol. IV, 2, 1995; pp. 205-221. 13. “Libertad y revocabilidad”, Anuario filosófico, Vol. XXVII, 3, 1994; pp. 991-1005. 14. “An ingenuous account of the doctrine of the mean”, Tópicos, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, Vol. IV, 6, 1994; pp. 31-58 15. “Virtues, motivation and the end of life”, invited contribution to Truth and moral tradition: essays in honour of and Elizabeth Anscombe, edd. L. Gormally: Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994; pp. 111-132. 16. “The argument from authority”, in The Past and the Present: Problems of Understanding, ed. A. J. Hegarty, Grandpont Papers 1, Oxford 1993; pp. 25-35. Christopher Martin: curriculum vitae 3

17. “Rules for demonstration and rules for answering questions in Aquinas”, Argumentationstheorie: Scholastische Forschungen zu den logischen und semantische Regeln korrekten Folgerns, ed. K. Jacobi: E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1993; pp. 621-635. 18. “Sto. Tomás y la identidad personal” Anuario Filosófico, Vol. XXVI, 2, 1993; pp. 249-259. 19. “The practical value of moral philosophy in Aquinas”, Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy, Vol. 3, edd. R. Työrinoja, A. Inkeri Lehtinen, D. Føllesdal: the Philosophical Society of Finland, Helsinki, 1992; pp. 243-250. 20. Ética y sentido común (pamphlet), Instituto de estudios empresariales de Montevideo; Montevideo September 1992. (9 pp.) 21. “ and Aristotelian moral philosophy”, in Sobre la Vida y Obra de Maimónides, ed. J. Peláez: Ediciones el Almendro, Córdoba 1991; pp. 349-357. 22. “Sensus communis”, Handbook of Ontology and Metaphysics, edd. H. Burkhardt, B. Smith: Philosophia Verlag, Munich 1991, Vol. 2; p. 829. 23. “Thomas Aquinas”, Handbook of Ontology and Metaphysics, edd. H. Burkhardt, B. Smith: Philosophia Verlag, Munich 1991, Vol. 2; pp. 896-897. 24. “On an alleged inconsistency in the Nicomachean Ethics (IX, 4)”, Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. XC, 1990; pp. 188-191. 25. “Significatio nominis in Aquinas”, Estudios de la Historia de la Lógica, edd. I. Angelelli, A. D’Ors: Ediciones Eunate, Pamplona 1990; pp. 363-379. 26. “Actuar mal y actuar irracionalmente” Anuario Filosófico, 1986, pp. 195-197. 27. “Unidad y dispersión en la doctrina de Aristóteles sobre el fin del hombre” Anuario Filosófico, Vol. XIII, 1980; pp. 173-176.

Work in progress / projects I have recovered my rights in my 1987 book The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas: Introductory Readings, and am working on a revision for a second edition, on the recommendation of experienced colleagues. I am working on a note on Aristotle’s use of archery metaphors in his ethical writings, and the actual practice of archery in ancient Greece. I am finishing a paper delivered at the “Suffering and Hope” conference, comparing two different metaphors for courage in illness: that of a “battle with illness” and that of “bearing illness”, relating them to the views of Aristotle and Aquinas. I am working on an article to vindicate the traditional argument that “suicide is wrong because it is self-murder”, against the famous objection to it by Flew. I have previously written discussing (adversely) the fact-value distinction: I am currently working on a discussion of Aristotle’s distinction between skill and practical wisdom, which there are good reasons to regard as genuine. A larger project is a monograph on analytic Thomism On all but the last two of these I have already delivered papers and obtained feedback from peers.

Teaching Undergraduate teaching experience: Christopher Martin: curriculum vitae 4

Courses taught in a variety of modes: individual tutorials, small-group tutorials, small classes and seminars, and lecture groups of up to 200 pupils. Examining at all levels. Houston 1st year: Ancient Philosophy; 2nd year: Ethics; 3rd year: Metaphysics. Ancient Philosophy; 4th year: Contemporary , Glasgow 1st year: ; General philosophy; 2nd year: Theories of existence; 3rd year: Formal logic; moral and political philosophy; , theory of knowledge, and metaphysics; rationalists and empiricists; 4th year: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval philosophy; modal logic; philosophy of Edinburgh 3rd year: Aristotle, Metaphysics ; Plato, Republic Spain 1st year: Logic; Practical truth; Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; Philosophy of nature 5th year: Aquinas’s theory of science Oxford 1st year: Hume; Locke; Mill; 2nd year: History of philosophy, Descartes to Kant; Plato, Crito and Meno; and Meno; Phaedo; 3rd year: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics; Contemporary moral philosophy; Theories of existence; Medieval philosophy; Moral and political philosophy; Philosophical logic, theory of knowledge, and metaphysics; Plato, Republic; Plato, Sophist and Theaetetus

Graduate teaching experience Houston 1999 – present I have directed and taught courses entitled “Introduction to Philosophy at the Center”, “God and Explanations”, “Modern Moral Philosophy”, “Analytical Thomism”, “” and “Suffering and Hope: the philosophy of Palliative Care”; planned and executed implementation of new regulations for M. A. and Ph.D. comprehensive examinations. Doctoral and master’s supervision. Doctoral and master’s examinations, and doctoral dissertation defenses. Glasgow 1986-1988, 1989-1993: Sole person responsible for Department’s graduate school. During this period admissions increased, completion rates improved, submission periods shortened. Extensive teaching and supervision on master’s program, and doctoral supervision. Examination for doctorates at Glasgow, Oxford, Edinburgh, Sheffield.

Other research and teaching collaboration My principal expertise, in both teaching and research, lies in the field of analytical Thomism. This line of philosophy consists in applying the techniques of analytical philosophy – the most representative contemporary style of philosophy in the English- speaking world – to the texts and materials of St Thomas Aquinas. This manner of doing philosophy is unusual in the United States, though more common in Britain. Since it affords a means of dialogue between philosophers of the Thomistic and analytical schools, I, and other Thomists, regard this endeavour as of considerable importance to both schools. Christopher Martin: curriculum vitae 5

In 2012 I gave a seminar at the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie and the Universidad Pontificia de Chile, in Santiago de Chile. In 2010 I was an invited keynote speaker, together with Prof. Swinburne and Prof. Seifert, at the conference “Libertad y Filosofía Cristiana” organized by the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie and the Universidad Pontificia de Chile, in Santiago de Chile. In 2008 I was an invited keynote speaker at the conference “E. Anscombe’s Intention and the renewal of moral psychology” at the Università della Santa Croce, Rome. In 2006 I collaborated with Baroness Sue Greenfield, Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at the , and Director of the Royal Institution, in organizing a symposium, held at the House of Lords, at which both neuroscientists and philosophers took part. My responsibility was to find appropriate philosophical contributors, and to encourage them to take part. In 2005 the Center for Thomistic Studies held an interdisciplinary academic conference to mark its 25th anniversary. I suggested the theme – the ideas behind palliative care and the meaning of suffering – and I organized the conference. Participants came from all over the U.S.A. and from abroad, offering papers in a variety of fields: philosophy, theology, law, medicine, counselling. By concentrating philosophical attention on the definition and extent of palliative care, we were able to provide a framework within which many others will be able to make valuable contributions. I have given invited seminars and specialist lecture courses on ancient philosophy, medieval philosophy, moral philosophy, and the Scottish common-sense school, at universities in Chile, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and Uruguay; in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Newcastle, Oxford, St Andrews, Stirling. Public lectures in Spain and Sweden, and papers to legal and medical associations, and to conferences and seminars on the history of ideas in Britain. 1990-1996: Co-ordinator of a project to promote research into the historical relations between Spanish and Scottish philosophy. Academic staff and postgraduate students from the universities of Glasgow, Barcelona, Navarre, Valencia and Zaragoza were involved: interest was expressed at Groningen, Nijmegen and Coimbra, as well as from other Scottish and Spanish universities. This project twice won awards from the British Council and the Spanish Ministry of Education, under the Acciones Integradas scheme. I have peer-reviewed books at the request of e.g. Oxford University Press.

Administrative experience Houston: Director of Center for Thomistic Studies, Chair of undergraduate department, 1999-2000. Service on hiring committees. Committee for developing means of evaluation of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition element in the core curriculum, 2005- 2006. Acting Director of Center for Thomistic Studies, Spring semester and summer, 2008. Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009. Chair appointment committee, 2009, 2010. Ad hoc workload reform committee 2009. Grievance committee 2010. Glasgow: Departmental committees: computing committee, curriculum review committee. Arts Faculty consultative body 1991-1994, faculty committee for student feedback 1992-3. University appointments committee 1991. Oxford: Service in selection procedures (interviewing prospective students). The interview, at this time, was one of the chief ways of selecting prospective students. The Christopher Martin: curriculum vitae 6

task is usually limited to full fellows of the college, but I was invited to take part even though I held the lesser post of College lecturer Spain: Arts Faculty consultative body.

Referees Dr Mary Catherine Sommers, Director, Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas, 3800 Montrose Boulevard Houston Texas 77006 USA [email protected] +1 713 942 5048 Fax +1 713 942 3464 Dr Sommers is the Director of the graduate centre in which I teach. The Center is the only graduate school in North America with a doctoral programme focused on the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas

Rev. Dr Anthony Giampietro, C.S.B., Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of St Thomas, 3800 Montrose Boulevard Houston Texas 77006 USA +1 713 525 3590 Fax +1 713 942 5696 Email: [email protected]

Dr Giampietro is the head of the undergraduate department of philosophy at the University of St Thomas, and I am responsible to him for my undergraduate teaching.

Dr Edward Feser, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, 1570 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91106, USA +1 626 585 7123 E-mail [email protected]

Dr Feser is familiar with my scholarly work. He is the author of The Last Delusion.

All these referees may be contacted prior to interview, if required.

Current salary $78,500 – about £52,000

Available to start work May 2013

8th March 2013