Events

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Event Information:

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    2020
    Fri
    10
    Jan
    2020

    International Hobbes Association Meeting, Eastern Division APA, Philadelphia, PA

    Philadelphia, PA

    January 8–11, 2020: International Hobbes Association Meeting, Eastern Division APA, Philadelphia, PA

    The International Hobbes Association will be sponsoring two sessions at the American Philosophical Association 2020 Eastern Division meeting, Philadelphia, PA

    Session 1: Thursday, Jan 9, Time TBA
    Chair: Marcus Adams (University at Albany, SUNY)

    Sarah Meier (Xavier University of Louisiana) "The political psychology of the Hobbesian subject"
    Christopher Fremaux (Stony Brook University) "Reason, Sovereignty, and Obligation in Hobbes and Pufendorf"
    Ryan Quandt (University of South Florida) "Moses, a true prophet: Thomas Hobbes and the authority of scripture"
    Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) "Hobbesian Equality, Baumrin, and Egoist Interpretations"

    Session 2: Friday, Jan 10, Time TBA
    Chair: Michael Byron (Kent State University)

    Eva Odzuck (Friedrich Alexander University) "Hobbesian Eugenics"
    Karim Barakat (American University of Beirut) "Causation in Hobbes's Method"
    Sandra Field (Yale-NUS College) "A Puzzle for Hobbes’s Conception of Political Unity"
    Sharon Lloyd (University of Southern California) "TBA"