Professor Christopher J. Martin

Assistant Editor, Richard Rufus of Cornwall Project
University of Auckland

Philosophy Department
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New Zealand
Email: Christopher J. Martin

Education:

Ph.D., Princeton University, 1981

M.A., Sussex University, 1976

B.A., Sussex University, 1974

Academic Honors:

Visiting Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge, 2001

Visiting Scholar, Classics, University of Cambridge, 2001

Visiting Fellow, University of Bristol

Employment:

Lecturer (and Senior Lecturer), Department of Philosophy, Auckland University, 1988-present

Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Toronto University, 1994

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York 1981-1987

Publications, Articles and Brief Editions

“Aristotle and the Logic of Consequences: The Development of the Theory of Inference in the Early Thirteenth Century,” forthcoming in The Origins of the Medieval Reception of Aristotle in the Latin West, ed. L. Honnefelder, R. Wood, M. Dreyer, & M. Aris, Münster 2002.

“Abaelard on Modality: Some Possibilities and Some Puzzles,” in Thomas Buchheim, Corneille Henri Kneepkens & Kuno Lorenz (eds.) Potentialität und Possibilität, Stutgart, 2001, pp. 97-124.

“Obligations and Liars,” in Medieval Formal Logic: Consequences, Obligations, Insolubles, M. Yrjönsuuri ed., New Synthese Historical Library, Dordrecht 2001, pp. 63-94. [Reprint]

“Non-reductive Arguments from Impossible Hypotheses in Boethius and Philoponus,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, XVII (1999) pp. 279-302.

“The Logic of Growth: Twelfth-Century Nominalists and the Development of Theories of the Incarnation,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 7 (1998), pp. 1-14.

“Impossible Positio as the Foundation of Metaphysics or, Logic on the Scotist Plan?” in Vestigia, Imagines, Verba: Semiotics and Logic in Medieval Theological Texts, C. Marmo (ed.), Turnhout 1996, pp. 255-276.

“The Logic of the Nominales,” Vivarium 30 (1992) 110-126.

“Boethius and the Logic of Negation,” Phronesis 36 (1991) 277-304.

“Bradwardine's Proof for the Existence of God and Positio as a Test of Possibility” in Knowledge And The Sciences In Medieval Philosophy, S. Knuuttila, R. Tyorinoja, S. Ebbesen (eds.), Helsinki, 1990, pp. 574-586.

“Something Amazing About The Peripatetic Of Pallet: Abaelard's Development of Boethius Account of Conditional Propositions,” Argumentation 1 (1987) 419-436.

“Embarrassing Arguments and Surprising Conclusions in the Development Theories of the Conditional in the Twelfth Century” in Gilbert De Poitiers Et Ses Contemporains, J. Jolivet, A. De Libera (eds.), Naples 1987, pp. 377-401.

“The Compendium Logicae Porretanum: A survey of Philosophical Logic from the School of Gilbert of Poitiers,” Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen Age Grec et Latin (Copenhagen), 46 (1983), pp. xvii-xlvi.

Referee/Consultant:

Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Theoria, Prudentia (editorial board), Vivarium (quinquennial review commissioner), Series Editor, Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy

Addresses:

“Nil Ex Falso: Propositionality and Logic in the Ars Meliduna” to the Fourteenth Symposium on Mediaeval Logic and Semantics, Rome, 11th June 2002.

“Abaelard and the Manipulation of Modality” to the International Workshop; Abaelard Logic and Grammar, Trinity College, Cambridge, 18th March 2001.

“Will Consent and Moral Evaluation in Augustine and Abaelard,” to the Workshop In The History of Philosophy: Emotions and Rational Choice, Uppsala University, April 26th 2001.

“John Major on Future Contingency,” at the symposium John Buridan and Beyond, at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, 7th September, 2001.

“The New Logic of William of Ockham,” Philosophy Department, Glasgow University, January 30th, 2001. Philosophy Department, Liverpool University, April 2nd, 2001. At Oriel College, Oxford, May 23rd 2001.

“Flights of Fancy: Avicenna's Arguments for the Incorporeality of the Soul and their Interpretation,” Philosophy Department, Uppsala University, April 11th 2001. Trinity College Cambridge, April 27th, 2001.

“Thinking the Impossible,” Philosophy Department, Ohio State Univ. at Columbus, May 20th 1997. Department of Systematic Theology, University of Helsinki, 31st October 1997. David Charles' Faculty Philosophy Seminar, Oriel College, Oxford., Jan. 22nd, 1998. Colloquium on Mediaeval Philosophy, Trinity College Cambridge, Jan. 30th, 1998. Philosophy Department at Cornell University, Feb. 13th, 1998.

Encyclopedias, etc.:

The Philosopher's Annual 1984-1985, ed. with P. Grim, M. Simon, and P. Athay.

The Enclyclopaedia of Metaphysic and Ontology: Gilbert of Poitiers.