Events

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

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Event Information:

  • Thu
    04
    Jan
    2018
    Fri
    05
    Jan
    2018

    International Hobbes Association, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division

    Savannah Convention Center, Savannah Georgia

    Thursday, January 4, 2018, 7:30-10:30 PM
    Topic: Hobbes’s Political Philosophy
    Chair: Rosamond Rhodes (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
    Speakers:
    Eleanor Curran (University of Kent Law School)
    “Hobbesian Sovereignty, the Rule of Law, and Rights of Subjects: Absolutism Undermined”
    Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo)
    “On the Hobbesian Dilemma”
    Christopher Buckman (Auburn University)
    “Individual and Social Power in Hobbes”
    Paul Garofalo (University of Southern California)
    “Comment on Kings: Sovereign’s Duties in Hobbes’s Leviathan”

    Friday, January 5, 2018, 7:00-10:00 PM
    Topic: Issues in Hobbes’s Philosophy
    Chair: Michael Byron (Kent State University)
    Speakers:
    Stewart Duncan (University of Florida)
    “Hobbes on the Signification of Moral Language”
    Elad Carmel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
    “Anticlericalism, Not Atheism: John Toland, Thomas Hobbes, and the Naturalization of God”
    Shane D. Courtland (West Virginia University)
    “Prochoice Leviathan”
    Daniel Collette (St. Norbert College)
    “Hobbes’s Rhetorical Science: Leviathan, Method, and Geometrical Subversion”