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    The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought: Western and Non-Western Perspectives (edited book)
    with Stefan Dolgert, Owen Flanagan, Eric Goodfield, Stuart Gray, Jing Hu, Murad Idris, Sungmoon Kim, Abraham Melamed, Magid Shihade, David Slakter, Michael Stoil, and Siwing Tsoi
    Lexington Books. 2013.
    The State of Nature in Comparative Political Thought addresses non-Western conceptions of the "state of nature", revealing how basic questions related to political thought are reflected in Chinese, Islamic, Indic, and other cultural contexts. It contributes to the burgeoning field of comparative political theory, and should be of interest to political theorists, regional specialists, students of globalization, as well as anyone interested in non-Western approaches to basic political questions.
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    Language and Thought
    In Ernie Lepore & Kirk Ludwig (eds.), Blackwell Companion to Donald Davidson, Wiley. 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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    John R. Searle (1932–)
    In A. P. Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell. 2001.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Language Consciousness Intentionality Social reality Conclusion.
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    Introduction
    In A. P. Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell. 2001.
  • Natural sovereignty and omnipotence in Hobbes's Leviathan
    In Laurens van Apeldoorn & Robin Douglass (eds.), Hobbes on Politics and Religion, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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    Lloyd's book, Morality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, correctly stresses the deductive element in Hobbes's proofs of the laws of nature. She believes that “the principle of reciprocity” is the key to these proofs. This principle is effective in getting ego-centric people to recognize moral laws and their moral obligations. However, it is not, I argue, the basic principle Hobbes uses to derive the laws of nature, from definitions. The principle of reason, which dictates that all similar case…Read more
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    Lin guistic Refutations o f Skepticism
    Facta Philosophica 2 (1): 75-93. 2000.
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    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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    Surfaces
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (2): 476-478. 1991.
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    Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes by Timothy Raylor
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (4): 754-755. 2019.
    Timothy Raylor's book constitutes a major advance in understanding Thomas Hobbes's thought in several dimensions: of course, in philosophy and rhetoric, as his title indicates, but also in Hobbes's views of history, science, and civic humanism. Raylor's scholarship is of the highest order; and his judgment about texts, Hobbes's and others', is acute. His book should be as important to historians of philosophy as to rhetoricians and intellectual historians. Placing "Philosophy" and "Rhetoric" bef…Read more
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    Leviathan (edited book)
    Broadview Press. 2002.
    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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    Thomas Hobbes
    with Brian Richardson
    Philosophy East and West 48 (4): 671. 1998.
  • The Philosophy of Language
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 49 (2): 353-353. 1987.
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Taming the Leviathan: The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640–1700A. P. MartinichJon Parkin. Taming the Leviathan: The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640–1700. Ideas in Context, 82. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xi + 449. Cloth, $115.Parkin’s book covers the same period and much of the same material as John…Read more
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    Discussion – Infallibility*: A. P. MARTINICH
    Religious 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
  • Sacraments and Speech Acts, II
    Heythrop Journal 16 (4): 405-417. 1975.
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    Sacraments and Speech Acts, I
    Heythrop Journal 16 (3): 289-303. 1975.
  • The attributive use of proper names
    Analysis 37 (4): 159. 1977.
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    Necessity and competence
    The Philosophers' Magazine 50 82-83. 2010.
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    The Achilles of Rationalist Arguments (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 8 236-238. 1976.
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    Philosophy in Question (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 22 (3): 116-117. 1990.
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    Hobbes (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 64 (3): 636-637. 2011.
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    John 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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    Hobbes: A Biography
    Cambridge 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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    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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    Hobbes
    Routledge. 2005.
    Thomas Hobbes was the first great English philosopher and one of the most important theorists of human nature and politics in the history of Western thought. This superlative introduction presents Hobbes' main doctrines and arguments, covering all of Hobbes' philosophy. A.P. Martinich begins with a helpful overview of Hobbes' life and work, setting his ideas against the political and scientific background of seventeenth-century England. He then introduces and assesses, in clear chapters, Hobbes'…Read more