ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Philosophy
St. John Hall, Room B30-8
Queens Campus
St. John’s University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, NY 11439
Phone: (718) 990-5439
Fax: (718) 990-1907
martinj@stjohns.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
- Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada, 1989
- M.B.A., University of Toronto, Canada, 1977
- M.A., Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada, 1973
- B.A., Philosophy, Notre Dame, 1971
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Aristotle, especially the Nicomachean Ethics and the
interconnection between the Metaphysics and the De Anima
- St. Thomas Aquinas’ natural theology and role as an
Aristotelian commentator
- Kant and his influence on ethics and metaphysics
PROFILE
James Martin has been a member of the Philosophy Department since
1987. Dr. Martin was the editor of the Journal of
Neoplatonic Studies, the official journal of the International
Society for Neoplatonic Studies, for seven years. He was invited to
participate in the Seventeenth Annual Boston Area Colloquium, Clark
University, Worcester, Massachusetts; to present papers at the
Eastern Division of the APA; and to present a paper in the Franklin
J. Matchette Foundation Lectures on Mind/Matter from Antiquity, at
the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He is a member
of the ACPA and has served as a member of its Executive
Council.