MARTIN, Michael L. Of Lexington, formerly of Newton and Cambridge, died May 27, 2015. Born in Cincinnati, OH February 3, 1932. Devoted husband of Jane Roland Martin. Proud father of Timothy David Martin and his wife Beatrice of Los Angeles, CA and Thomas Peter Martin and his wife Nina of Guilford, CT. Loving grandfather to 5 grandchildren: Maxwell, Gabriel, Zachary, Jordan and Maribelle. U.S. Marine Corps Veteran, Korea; Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Boston University. Professor Martin is the author or editor of a number of books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (1989), The Case Against Christianity (1991), Atheism, Morality, and Meaning (2002), The Impossibility of God (2003), The Improbability of God (2006), The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (2006) and the recently published The Myth of an Afterlife (2015). Private interment Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA.