Professor Rex Martin
Overview
Position:
Honorary Professor
Professor Martin has been associated with the School since 2000, particularly the Collingwood and British Idealism Centre. He is a world renowned scholar in the areas of,Collingwood Studies legal philosophy, rights and Rawls and regularly visits the School and participates in conferences organized around Idealism and political theory in general. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, where he has been since 1968 and also held a joint professorship at Swansea University from 1995-2000.
Professor Martin has been active in the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy and was a member of the Executive Committee, 1991-2003 and Vice-President, 1995-2003. He was President of the American Section from 1993-1995. He has also served as Chair of the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on Philosophy and Law during the same period 1992-1995. His fields of major interest are political and legal philosophy (in particular rights and economic justice), history of political thought and philosophy of history. He is the author of articles in these fields as well as of three books: Historical Explanation: Re-enactment and Practical Inference, 1977, Rawls and Rights, 1985 and A System of Rights, 1993. Professor Martin edited the revised edition of R G Collingwood’s Essays on Metaphysics, 1998 and most recently he was the co-editor of Rawls Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia? 2006.
Updated cv, online at University of Kansas
Publications
Publications: books (edited)
G. C. MacCallum, Legislative Intent, and Other Essays on Law, Politics and Morality. Mark Singer (co-editor), with a preface and introduction by the co-editors. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.
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). Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. (Includes an introduction “Reading Rawls’s The Law of Peoples,” by the co-editors.) This book was one of Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2006.
Publications: articles
articles, etc.: more than 80 articles or book chapters published or accepted and forthcoming (mainly in my areas of special interest); also 12 short items (encyclopedia entries, etc.), more than 30 book reviews or critical discussions (plus numerous papers at professional meetings and conferences and invited lectures at universities and colleges)--the details on all these items are provided in my full updated cv, online at University of Kansas
Biography
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; School of European Studies, Honorary Professor, 2002-07, reappointed 2007-2012
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
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
