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The phrase ‘Does the fact’ naturally invites howls of derision: it’s a fact that every child knows that the Japanese…
I think I would answer “Does the fact that the United States of America has never experienced a foreign occupation…
Rex Martin was a first class person with a sharp intellect and wry sense of humor. He was an excellent…
21. Is style the last refuge against AI?
All about class.
*important caveat that said TT job was secured via an internal hire where two other grads of the same school…
Excellent questions! Re question 6, I have actually already invented a new punctuation mark. I can’t type it here, as…
Professor Martin, who spent most of his academic career at the University of Kansas (where he was emeritus), was well-known for his work on philosophy of history and political and legal philosophy. There is an obituary here. Comments are open for remembrances from those who knew Professor Martin or for those who would like to comment on the significance of his work.
(Thanks to David Reidy for the pointer.)
Rex Martin was a first class person with a sharp intellect and wry sense of humor. He was an excellent teacher and even better philosopher with remarkably broad interests. For those he mentored, he gently gave sage advice, professional, philosophical, personal. But his best advice was his steady example of how to live in a manner that integrated the virtues particular to each domain.
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