Article: Democracy and the Body Politic from Aristotle to Hobbes
Sophie Smith draws on early modern commentaries on Aristotle to explore Hobbes's theory of the body politic.
New book: Hobbes and the Artifice of Eternity
In this new book (to be published this month) Christopher Scott McClure argues that there is a rhetorical strategy behind Hobbes's provocative theology.
Article: The Monstrosity of Matter in Motion: Galileo, Descartes, and Hobbes’s Political Epistemology
In this new article Andrea Bardin traces early modern developments in materialist philosophy, contrasting Hobbes's political-pedagogical project with the theory of Descartes.
EHS Biennial Conference in Leuven, 21 and 22 September 2016
The first EHS biennial conference will take place on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 September, at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium. The programme includes papers by Patricia Springborg, Luc Foisneau, Deborah Baumgold, Peter Schröder, Agostino Lupoli, and S.A. Lloyd.
Debate: Al Martinich vs. John Deigh on law. Part 2: Deigh.
This is Deigh's response to Martinich, in the first in a series of debates about entries in The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes (ed. A.P. Martinich and Kinch Hoekstra). In part 1 of this debate, Martinich had argued that the laws of nature are laws, by virtue of God who makes the propositions laws. Deigh responds to Martinich's critique.
Debate: Al Martinich vs. John Deigh on law. Part 1: Martinich.
This is the first in a series of debates about entries in The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes (ed. A.P. Martinich and Kinch Hoekstra).
In this first debate A.P. Martinich discusses John Deigh's chapter on 'Political Obligation' and argues that the laws of nature are laws, by virtue of God who makes the propositions laws.
