Aloysius Martinich
American philosopher
Aloysius Patrick Martinich (born June 28, 1946), usually cited as A. P. Martinich, is an American analytic philosopher. He is the Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin. His areas of interest are the nature and practice of interpretation, history of modern philosophy, the philosophy of language, the history of political thinking and Thomas Hobbes.
Biography
Martinich has specialized in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He is the author of The Two Gods of Leviathan (1992), Hobbes: A Biography (1999), and Hobbes's Political Philosophy (2021).
Publications
Books
Thomas Hobbes, Computatio sive Logica: Part One of De Corpore, translation and commentary, New York: Abaris Books, 1981.
The Philosophy of Language (Critical Concepts in Philosophy), New York: Oxford University Press, 1985 (sixth edition edited with David Sosa, 2012).
Philosophical Writing: An Introduction, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1989; fourth edition Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2015.
The Two Gods of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Religion and Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
A Hobbes Dictionary.
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