Philosophy

Fritz Marti

The Fritz Marti lecture has been delivered by a host of influential philosophers since its inception in 1976 and is named in honor of philosopher Fritz Marti. Professor Marti was born in Switzerland in 1894. He served as an engineer in the Swiss Army during the first World War. In 1922, he earned his doctorate from the University of Bern, and later that year he came to the United States to teach at the University of Oregon. Professor Marti went on to teach at numerous colleges and universities, specializing in post-Kantian German Idealism and gaining a reputation for his work on Schelling. He ended his career as a lecturer here at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville at age 82.

Fritz Marti Lectures 1976-2016

1. DONALD CRAWFORD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Kant’s Theory of Creative Imagination,” 1976.
2. ALBERT LEVI, Washington University, “The Modern cultural Roots of Analytic Philosophy,” 1977.
3. WOLFE MAYS, University of Manchester, “Affectivity and Values in Piaget,” 1978.
4. FRITZ MARTI, SIUE, “It and I: Two Ways of Philosophizing,” 1979.
5. DIETER HENRICH, University of Heidelberg and Harvard, “Kant’s Notion of Philosophical Justification and the Structure of
   Transcendental Deduction,” 1980.
6. KENNETH SAYRE, University of Notre Dame, “Did Wittgenstein Believe in God?” 1981.
7. STEVEN SCHWARZCHILD, Washington University, “Alientation—The Philosophical Issue Between Hegel and Kant,” 1982.
8. JOHN LACHS, Vanderbilt University, “Alienation in a Mediated World,” 1983.
9. ELIZABETH EAMES, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, “Beauvoir and the Self: A Feminist Medean Perspective,” 1984.
10. RICHARD DEGEORGE, University of Kansas, “Property and Global Justice,” 1985.
11. FRED DRETSKE, University of Wisconsin, “Thinking Matters: Brains and Behavior,” 1986.
12. EDWIN CURLEY, University of Illinois at Chicago, “Where There’s a Will,” 1987.
13. BARUCH A. BRODY, Rice University, “Conflicting Values in the AIDS Crisis,” 1988.
14. JOHN HICK, Claremont Graduate School, “The Real and Its Personae and Impersonae,” 1989.
15. SANDRA HARDING, University of Delaware, “Feminism and Objectivity,” 1990.
16. GEORGE W. LINDEN, SIUE, 1991.
17. NICHOLAS P. WHITE, University of Michigan, 1992.
18. LEO KATZ, University of Michigan Law School, “Avoidance & Evasion: The Ethics of Ingenuity,” 1993.
19. MARILYN FRIEDMAN, Washington University, “Political Correctness and Cultural Values,” 1994.
20. FRED ADAMS, Central Michigan University, “Trying: Exploring the Limits of Human Endeavor,” March 14 & 15, 1995.
21. ELEONORE STUMP, St. Louis University, “Libertarianism,” 1996.
22. GRAHAM PARKES, University of Hawaii, Hilo, “Nietzsche and Asian Thought: Resources for Ecological thinking,” 1997.
23. ROBERT L. HOMES, University of Rochester, “Philosophical Dimensions of Issues of War and Peace” (Matchette Lecture),
    1998.
24. WILLIAM MCBRIDE, Purdue University, “The Globalization of Philosophy,” 1999.
25. MARK SAGOFF, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, “Ecosystem
    Design in Historical and Philosophical Context,” 2000.
26. IRIS MARION YOUNG, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, “Difference is not Identity: some Remarks on
    Structural Inequality,” 2001.
27. ERNEST SOSA, Brown university, “The Skeptic’s Appeal Denied: The Historical Roots of Philosophical Skepticism, and its
    Relevance to Philosophy Today,” April 4, 2002.
28. NICHOLAS RESCHER, University of Pittsburgh, “Science and Common Sense,” March 20, 2003.
29. THEODORE SIDER, Rutgers University, “Vague, So Untrue,” April 15, 2004.
30. THOMAS R. FLYNN, Emory University, “Jean-Paul Sartre, A Man of The Nineteenth Century Addressing The Twenty-First?”
    March 31, 2005.
31. JOHN DORIS, Washington University St. Louis, “Skepticism about Evil: From My Lai to Abu Ghraib,” March 16, 2006.
32. PETER VAN INWAGEN, University of Notre Dame, “We’re Right, They’re Wrong,” March 29, 2007.
33. ALVIN PLANTINGA, Notre Dame, “Divine Action in the World,” March 27, 2008.
34. ARTHUR FINE, University of Washington, “Worldly Understanding: Science, realism and objectivity,” March 26, 2009.
35. CLAUDIA CARD, Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Evils and Inexcusable Wrongs,”
    March 18, 2010.
36. DAVID WOOD, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy & Professor of European Studies, Vanderbilt University, “Thinking
    Out of the Box,” March 21, 2013.
37. JASON STANLEY, Professor of Philosophy, Yale University, “Language as a Mechanism of Control,” March 20, 2014.
38. SUSAN HAACK, Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Miami, “Credulity and Circumspection: Epistemological
    Character and the Ethics of Belief,” April 2, 2015.
39. KEVIN HART, Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia, “Phenomenology as Hermeneutics,” March
    18, 2016.
40. JOHN HEIL, Washington University St. Louis; Honorary Research Associate, Monash University, “Free Will and Physics,” March 24, 2017.
41. RICHARD KEARNEY, Boston College, “Recovering our Senses,” April 6, 2018.
42. KATHRYN NORLOCK, Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics, Trent University (CA), “Blaming, Online Shaming, and Grandstanding,” April 12, 2019.
43. 2020 pandemic forced cancellation.
44. 2021 pandemic forced cancellation.
45. CAMISHA RUSSELL, University of Oregon, “What Makes an Anti-Racist Bioethics?” March 25th, 2022
46. PAUL C. TAYLOR, Vanderbilt University; “Folding Away the Future “ April 7th, 2023
47. MUHAMMAD ALI KHALIDI, City University of New York, “The Mind Dependent World” April 19th, 2024