Background
Aloysius P. Martinich was born June 28, 1946 in Euclid General Hospital, Euclid, Ohio.
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He attended Catholic schools in the Cleveland area and graduated from Saint Joseph High School in 1964. He graduated from the University of Windsor, Ontario in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts (First Honours), with a major in Honours Philosophy. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in December, 1972, with a dissertation, Reference and the Axiom of Existence, under the direction of Avrum Stroll.
Career
His area of interest is the nature and practice of interpretation. History of modern philosophy. The philosophy of language and religion and the history of political thought.
He is considered a foremost authority on Thomas Hobbes.
Later, he and Stroll co-authored the major article, “Epistemology,” in the Encyclopædia Britannica and the book, Much Ado about Non-Existence. He became assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1973, and eventually became Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor in Philosophy.
He is also professor of History and Professor of Government, through courtesy appointments. He has lectured at many universities in the United States, Europe, and China.
He has specialized in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes.
His book, The Philosophy of Language, has been the standard textbook in that subject since its first publication in 1985. Foreign the sixth edition, he asked David Sosa to be his co-editors The fourth edition of his book, Philosophical Writing is underway.
He is the author or editor of many other books, and many articles
