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25Discussion – Infallibility*: A. P. MARTINICHReligious Studies 18 (1): 81-86. 1982.Patrick McGrath has argued that my defence of papal infallibility does not succeed. His basic strategy is to establish that, contrary to my arguments, infallible papal utterances are statements and not merely declarations. He wants this result in order to go on to show that the Pope, in possession of no priviliged epistemic access to the world, is not infallible. I agree that the Pope has no priviliged epistemic access; so that is not in dispute. What is in dispute is the fundamental question of…Read more
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22A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2001.A Companion to Analytic Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to many significant analytic philosophers and concepts of the last hundred years. Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most significant analytic philosophers of the last one hundred years. Offers clear and extensive analysis of profound concepts such as truth, goodness, knowledge, and beauty. Written by some of the most distinguished philosophers alive, some of whom have entries in the book devoted to them.
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19Surfaces, by Avrum Stroll (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 476-478. 1991.
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19Interpreting the Religion of Thomas Hobbes: An Exchange: Hobbes’s Erastianism and InterpretationJournal of the History of Ideas 70 (1): 143-163. 2009.A. P. Martinich's The Two Gods of Leviathan appeared in 1992, and J. R. Collins's The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes in 2005. Martinich offered a revisionist interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's religious commitments. He rebuked the conventional view that Hobbes was an atheist and placed him within particular traditions of reformed Christian theology. Collins's book strongly differed from these conclusions, and reasserted Hobbes's hostility to traditional Christianity as part of a general contextualiz…Read more
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18On Thomas Hobbes’s English Calvinism: Necessity, Omnipotence, and GoodnessPhilosophical Readings 4 (1): 18-30. 2012.
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16Interpretation and Hobbes's Political PhilosophyPacific Philosophical Quarterly 82 (3-4): 309-331. 2001.
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16LeviathanBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2). 2005.Hobbes' classic work has set the tone for the course of political philosophy through to our own day. This new Broadview edition includes the full text of the 1651 edition, together with a wide variety of background documents that help set the work in context. Also included are an introduction, explanatory notes, and a chronology
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16Hobbes: A BiographyCambridge University Press. 1999.Thomas Hobbes is recognized as one of the fathers of modern philosophy and political theory. In his own time he was as famous for his work in physics, geometry, and religion. He associated with some of the greatest writers, scientists, and politicians of his age. Martinich has written a complete and accessible biography of Hobbes. The book takes full account of the historical and cultural context in which Hobbes lived, drawing on both published and unpublished sources. It will be a great resourc…Read more
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15Leo Strauss’s Olympian Interpretation: Right, Self-preservation, and Law in The Political Philosophy of Thomas HobbesIn Winfried Schröder (ed.), Reading Between the Lines - Leo Strauss and the History of Early Modern Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 77-98. 2015.
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14Review of Noel Malcolm, Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2007 (9). 2007.
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14The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.
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13A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2001.A Companion to Analytic Philosophy is a comprehensive guide to many significant analytic philosophers and concepts of the last hundred years. Provides a comprehensive guide to many of the most significant analytic philosophers of the last one hundred years. Offers clear and extensive analysis of profound concepts such as truth, goodness, knowledge, and beauty. Written by some of the most distinguished philosophers alive, some of whom have entries in the book devoted to them.
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12John Searle and I agree about many important aspects about individual speech acts within fiction. I hope to reduce the area of disagreement by explaining how much work an analysis of fiction as linguistic behavior can do to solve the problems of truth and reference in fiction. The elements of the analysis include a concept of suspending H. P. Grice’s maxims of conversation, a view about criteria for the application of words and concepts, and the acceptance of institutions and institutional facts…Read more
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11Leviathan, Parts I and II - Revised Edition (edited book)Broadview Press. 2010.Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent’s desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to determine which religion is to be practiced in a commonwealth. Hobbes’s c…Read more
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10Epicureism and Calvinism in Hobbes’s Philosophy: Consequences of InterpretationPhilosophical Readings 4 (3): 3-15. 2012.
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10Leviathan - Revised Edition (edited book)Broadview Press. 2010.Thomas Hobbes’s _Leviathan_ is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent’s desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to determine which religion is to be practiced in a commonwealth. Hobbes’s…Read more
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9Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 2 vols, G. A. J. Rogers and Karl Schuhmann (eds), Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2003 (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (2): 349-359. 2005.
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8Language and ThoughtIn Ernie Lepore & Kurt Ludwig (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Donald Davidson, Blackwell. 2013.Donald Davidson holds that thought and talk emerge together. His view is an alternative to the views that language precedes thought and that thought precedes language. His basic argument is that in order to understand a language, an interpreter has to simultaneously assign beliefs, not to mention desires and intentions, to the speaker. So bits of language can be interpreted only if thoughts are attributed to the speakers of those bits. Davidson is arguably mistaken because interpretation of nonl…Read more
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8The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments (review)International Studies in Philosophy 8 236-238. 1976.
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