Special Issue of Philosophical Inquires: Bacon and Hobbes
A special edition of Philosophical Inquires: Revue des Philosophes Anglophones on the politics and philosophy of Thomas Hobbes and Francis Bacon
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New issue of Hobbes Studies
A new issue of Hobbes Studies is now available, with contributions from Noel Malcolm, Joanne Paul, Gregory J. Robson, Andrew T. Forcehimes, Nicholas Gooding and Juhana Lemetti.
Book: New German Edition of Hobbes’s Behemoth
A new German edition of Thomas Hobbes’s 1681 text Behemoth, or The Long Parliament. Translated, edited and introduced by Peter Schroder.
Article: Hobbes and human irrationality
Article considering whether Hobbes’s science of politics is compatible with his materialism. Sandra Leonie Field argues that Hobbes’s science of politics rests on a dual analysis of human beings: humans as complex material bodies in a network of mechanical forces, prone to passions and irrationality; and humans as subjects of right and obligation, morally exhortable by appeal to the standards of reason.
Book: Rousseau and Hobbes: Nature, Free Will and the Passions
In this new book Robin Douglass reconstructs the intellectual context of this engagement to reveal the deeply polemical character of Rousseau’s critique of Hobbes and to show how Rousseau sought to expose that much modern natural law and doux commerce theory was indebted to a Hobbesian account of human nature and the origins of society.
Article: Hobbes’s State of Nature: A Modern Bayesian Game-Theoretic Analysis
This new article suggests that, unlike standard game theory models, Bayesian game theory can explain conflict in the Hobbesian state of nature—even when the majority of the population would strictly prefer to cooperate and seek peace with other people—due to uncertainty about what type of person the other player is.
Book: Submission and Subjection in Leviathan
New book by Michael Byron focusing on the role of submission in Leviathan, and the expectations Hobbes has for good subjects.
Article: ‘Hobbes on the Scientific Study of the Human Mind’
A new article which argues that Hobbes sets out a scientific study of the human mind in accordance with the account of ‘physics’ found in De Corpore. By making this claim, the article suggests that Hobbes’s theory of mind is both consistent and crucial to his moral and political philosophy.
Article: ‘Leo Strauss and Hobbes’ Theory of Passions’
Recent article on Strauss’s Hobbes by Carlo Altini
Book: Secular Powers: Humility in Modern Political Thought
In this new book Julie Cooper argues that for Hobbes, Rousseau and Spinoza the recognition of one’s limitations was a crucial element of self-rule.
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