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Appeals to Experience in Hobbes’ Science of PoliticsIn Alberto Vanzo & Peter R. Anstey (eds.), Experiment, Speculation and Religion in Early Modern Philosophy, Routledge. 2019.This chapter examines the role of experience in Thomas Hobbes’ science of politics. Although Hobbes claims for his own formulation of civil philosophy a kind of definitiveness and certainty that only geometry has among the sciences, and although both geometry and civil philosophy are supposed to be the products of reason, where reason excludes experience (sense and memory), the necessity of establishing and submitting to the commonwealth is open to a certain sort of confirmation from experience.…Read more
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Descartes: an intellectual biography by Stephen GaukrogerEuropean Journal of Philosophy 4 107-110. 1996.
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Hobbes-Arg PhilosophersRoutledge. 1986.First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
University of Oxford
DPhil, 1978
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
History of Western Philosophy |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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