The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

It was as a political thinker that Thomas Hobbes first came to prominence, and it is as a political theorist that he is most studied today. Yet the range of his writings extends well beyond morals and politics. Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and geometry. All of these areas are covered in this Companion, most in considerable detail. The volume also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship by drawing together perspectives that are now being developed in parallel by philosophers, historians of science and mathematics, intellectual historians, political scientists, and literary theorists. Copyright Contents List of contributors Method of citation Introduction - Tom Sorell 1 A summary biography of Hobbes - Noel Malcolm 2 Hobbes's scheme of the sciences - Tom Sorell 3 First philosophy and thefoundation of knowledge - Yves Charles Zarka 4 Hobbes and the method of natural science - Douglas Jesseph 5 Hobbes and mathematics - Hardy Grant 6 Hobbes on light and vision - Jan Prins 7 Hobbes;s psychology - Bernard Gert 8 Hobbes's moral philosophy - Richard Tuck 9 Hobbes's political philosophy - Alan Ryan 10 Lofty science and local politics - Johann Sommerville 11 Hobbes on law - M. M. Goldsmith 12 History in Hobbes's thought - Luc Borot 13 Hobbes on rhetoric - Victoria Silver 14 Hobbes on religion - Patricia Springborg Bibliography Index Hobbes had distinctive views in metaphysics and epistemology, and wrote about such subjects as history, law, and religion. He also produced full-scale treatises in physics, optics, and geometry. All of these areas are covered in this Companion, most in considerable detail. The volume also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship by drawing together perspectives on Hobbes that are now being developed in parallel by philosophers, historians of science and mathematics, intellectual historians, political scientists, and literary theorists. This book examines the work of Thomas Hobbes, including his treatises in physics, optics and geometry, and also reflects the multidisciplinary nature of current Hobbes scholarship

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