New article: Hobbes against Bramhall – Moral responsibility, free will, and mechanistic determination
New publication by Thomas Pink about Hobbes’s role in the debate about free will and responsibility.
Alexandra Chadwick and Signy Gunick Allen, PhD students at Queen Mary, University of London, are publication officers of the European Hobbes Society.
New publication by Thomas Pink about Hobbes’s role in the debate about free will and responsibility.
A new article by Luka Ribarević trying to establish points of connection between Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War and Hobbes’s conception of the state of nature.
New book by Matthew Hoye, who argues that the fundamental foundation of Hobbes’s political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiant—in sum, magnanimous—statecraft.
New article by Teresa Bejan, who argues that the tiny figures’ hats on the frontispiece of “Leviathan” shed important light on the micropolitics of everyday interaction for those who hope to securely constitute a society of equals.
A new book by Stewart Duncan on the seventeenth century philosophical debate about the nature of the human mind.
A new article by Jerónimo Rilla that discusses the possibility of ascribing passions to states in Thomas Hobbes’s political theory.
A new book discussing Hobbes’s capacity to enrich our understanding of the nature of democratic life.
The European Hobbes Society will meet for its Fourth Biennial Conference at Universität Regensburg, 8-10 August 2023.
A new article by Kinch Hoekstra and Luca Iori (published in Histos: The Online Journal of Ancient Historiography) provides a sample presentation of the critical edition in progress of Thomas Hobbes’s translation of Thucydides, Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre (London, 1629).
A new issue of Hobbes Studies is available since November 2022 – including articles by Ben Jones and Manshu Tian, Jonah Miller, Laetitia Ramelet and Elad Carmel.