Faculty & Staff

Joel Martinez

Department Chair of Philosophy and Associate Professor of Philosophy
John R. Howard Hall
503-768-7735
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Professor Martinez is on the Italy Overseas Program for Spring 2023.

J.M. Fritzman

Associate Professor of Philosophy
John R. Howard Hall
503-768-7477

Phillip Barron

Post-Doctoral Fellow
John R. Howard Hall
503-768-7469

Eli B. Lichtenstein

Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy
John R. Howard Hall
503-768-7284

Jay Odenbaugh

James F. Miller Professor of Humanities
John R. Howard Hall
503-768-7377

Colin Patrick

Visiting Assistant Professor
John R. Howard Hall
503-768-7464
 
 

William A. Rottschaefer, Professor Emeritus
Email: rotts@lclark.edu

“My goal in teaching is that my students leave class each day with a greater love and understanding of the Real, the One, the True, and the Beautiful.”

I earned a BA in the Classics and Philosophy with honors from St. Louis University. I then received an MA in philosophy also from St. Louis University writing my master’s thesis on “The Object of the Intellect in St. Thomas’ Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Book of the Sentences.” After teaching Latin and Mathematics in a high school for three years, I obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Theology, from St. Louis University. I then acquired a MS in physics from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Finally, I earned a PhD in philosophy from Boston University, writing my dissertation on “Ordinary Knowledge in the Scientific Realism of Wilfrid Sellars,” under the direction of Abner Shimony.

My research has focused on the topics in philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, epistemology, metaphysics, the biological and psychological bases of moral agency, and the epistemic relationships between science and religion. I have published in a number of journals including Philosophy of ScienceBiology and PhilosophyBehavior and PhilosophyThe Journal of Consciousness StudiesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy and Zygon. Cambridge University Press published my book, The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency.

I was named the teacher of the year in 2002. I retired after the 2003 spring semester, but I continue to teach regularly on a part time basis.