The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes

The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). The chapters included in this Oxford Handbook cover the full range of Hobbes's thought--his philosophy of logic and language; his view of physics and scientific method; his ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law; and his views of religion, history, and literature. List of Contributors;

1. Introduction, A. P. Martinich; I. Logic and Natural Philosophy;

2. Logic, Martine Pecharman;

3. Hobbes on Language: Propositions, Truth, and Absurdity, Stewart Duncan;

4. Hobbes's Mathematical Thought, Katherine Dunlop;

5. Natural Philosophy, Daniel Garber;

6. Hobbes on the Foundations of Natural Philosophy, Douglas Jesseph;

7. The Most Curious of Sciences: Hobbes's Optics, Franco Giudice; II. Human nature and Moral Philosophy;

8. Hobbes on Liberty, Action, and Free Will, Thomas Pink;

9. Reason, Deliberation and the Passions, Adrian Blau;

10. The State of Nature, Ioannis D. Evrigenis;

11. Hobbes on the Family, Nancy Hirschmann;

12. Natural Law, S. A. Lloyd; III. Political Philosophy;

13. Political Obligation, John Deigh;

14. Authorization and Representation in Leviathan, A. P. Martinich;

15. Hobbes (and Austin, and Aquinas) on Law as Command of the Sovereign, Mark Murphy;

16. The Sovereign, David Runciman;

17. Hobbes and Absolutism, Johann Sommerville;

18. Sovereign Jurisdiction, Territorial Rights, and Membership in Hobbes, Arash Abizadeh;

19. Hobbes and the Social Control of Unsociability, Quentin Skinner; IV. Religion;

20. Hobbes and Religion without Theology, Agostino Lupoli;

21. Hobbes and Christianity, Richard Tuck;

22. Christianity and Civil Religion in Leviathan, Sarah Mortimer;

23. Thomas Hobbes's Ecclesiastical History, Jeffrey Collins; V. History, Poetry, and Paradox;

24. Hobbes's Thucydides, Kinch Hoekstra;

25. Making History: The Politics of Hobbes's Behemoth, Tomaz Mastnak;

26. Hobbes on the Nature and Scope of Poetry, Timothy Raylor;

27. Hobbes and Paradox, Jon Parkin; Index