Events

This page lists events and conferences on Thomas Hobbes organised by the European Hobbes Society and others.

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Event Information:

  • Wed
    16
    May
    2012
    Thu
    17
    May
    2012

    Hobbes: Politics and Philosophy

    King's College London

    Johan Olsthoorn (Leuven): ‘Sovereign virtue: Hobbes on justice and property rights’

    David Runciman (Cambridge): ‘Hobbes on the sovereign’

    Adrian Blau (King’s College, London): ‘Hobbes on reason, deliberation and the passions’

    Tom Pink (King’s College, London): ‘Hobbes on liberty, action and free will’

    Dirk Brantl (Tübingen): ‘Hobbes on duties artificial and natural’

    Robin Douglass (King’s College, London): ‘Hobbes and contemporary contractarianism: a reinterpretation of Thomas Hobbes’s social contract theory’

    Al Martinich (Texas, Austin): ‘Authorization and representation in Hobbes’s Leviathan’

    Jon Parkin (York): ‘Hobbes and paradox’

    Laurens van Apeldoorn (Leiden): ‘Hobbes on the rule of law'

    Luciano Venezia (Quilmes): ‘Crucial evidence: Hobbes on contractual obligation’