Norah Martin
Professor of Philosophy

Scholar of feminist ethics and the philosophy of psychiatry. Scholar of the ways that psychiatric drugs are used for enhancement rather than healing. Runs the University’s post-graduate scholarship program, through which students have won Marshall, Mitchell, Truman, and Fulbright grants to study free in America and Europe. Teaches ethics and the philosophy of madness and the philosophy of language and environmental ethics and the philosophy of science and the intro courses for freshmen. “Sometimes I have to remind myself to sit down and be quiet in class,” she says. “I have way too much fun. More than anything I want my students to be able to read and think for themselves. I tell them don’t pass your eyes over a text and then look to me for light. Wrestle with it yourself. I won’t always be there to explain. No one will. You’ll be confronted with a lot of knotty and troubling things in the future and you have to think for yourself.”