"the highest endeavour of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition" Spinoza

Academic Staff

Professor Wayne Martin

Position in departmentHead of School
Staff positionProfessor
E-mailwmartin (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone3405 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Room6.124
Office hoursSee office door
BiographyWayne Martin studied philosophy both in the UK and in the USA and taught for twelve years at the University of California, San Diego, before coming to Essex in 2005. He is the author of Theories of Judgment: Psychology, Logic, Phenomenology (Cambridge UP, 2006) and Idealism and Objectivity: Understanding Fichte's Jena Project (Stanford UP, 1997), as well as articles on Frege, Husserl, Lucas Cranach, Dutch Still Life painting, deontic logic and Philosophy of Psychiatry. He currently serves as Head of School, and is Principal Investigator on the Essex Autonomy Project, an externally funded research project concerned with the ideal of self-determination in human affairs. He also serves as General Editor of Inquiry and as Series Editor for Modern European Philosophy (the monograph series at CUP).

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QualificationsBA Cambridge, PhD Berkeley
Current research
Research interests
  • Phenomenology,
  • Kant and post-Kantian idealism
  • The history and philosophy of logic
  • Philosophy and painting
  • The problems of normative naturalism
  • The theory of representation
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