On the first of January in 1894, Fritz Marti was born in Switzerland. In the fall of 1965, he joined the faculty at SIUE at the age of 71. Although older than many of his colleagues, Fritz was lively and enthusiastic. He came to SIUE with a rich and exciting history. Growing up in Switzerland, he held a job as an iron worker before fighting with the Swiss army during World War 1. Afterwards, he studied mechanical engineering and philosophy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. With his newly earned Ph.D. in philosophy, Fritz Marti immigrated to the US in 1922. Here, he taught at many different universities, served as president of both the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology and the Southern Society for Philosophy of Religion, ran a private preparatory school in Ohio, and even taught art history.

For more information about Fritz Marti, visit Oregon State University's website.

Previous Fritz Marti Lectures:

from most recent

2013: David Wood, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy & Professor of European Studies, Vanderbilt University, "Thinking Out of the Box"

2010: Claudia Card, Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Evils and Inexcusable Wrongs"

2009: Arthur Fine, University of Washington, "Worldly Understanding: Science, Realisim, and Objectivity"

2008: Alvin Plantinga, Notre Dame, "Divine Action in the World"

2007: Peter van Inwagen, University of Notre Dame, "We're Right, They're Wrong"

2006: John Doris, Washington University in St. Louis, "Skepticism about Evil: From My Lai to Abu Ghraib"

2005: Thomas R. Flynn, Emory University, "Jean-Paul Sartre, A Man of the Nineteenth Century Addressing the Twenty-First?"

2004: Theodore Sider, Rutgers University, "Vague, So Untrue"

2003: Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh, "Science and Common Sense"

2002: Ernest Sosa, Brown University, "The Skeptic's Appeal Denied: the Historical Roots of Philosophical Skepticism, and its Relevance to Philosophy Today"

2001: Iris Young, University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, "Difference Is Not Identity: Some Remarks on Structural Inequality"

2000: Mark Sagoff, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy in the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, "Ecosystem Design in Historical and Philosophical Context"

Click here for information about older lectures.