Marcus P Adams

Hobbes's Two Sciences

Politics, Geometry, and the Structure of Philosophy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Is politics a science? Hobbes's Two Sciences explores how Seventeenth Century Philosopher Thomas Hobbes answered this question in the affirmative by developing a novel theory of knowledge and by finding inspiration in the methods of mathematics and physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 165mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780198924685
• ISBN-10: 0198924682
• Artikelnr.: 73516083

Autorenporträt

Marcus P. Adams is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany and former Associate Editor of the journal Hobbes Studies. His research focuses on perception and natural philosophy in Early Modern Philosophy, in particular these areas in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish. He has edited A Companion to Hobbes (2021), and his papers have appeared in journals such as British Journal for the History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Philosophers' Imprint.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: The Unity of Hobbes's Philosophy
2: Prudential Knowledge from Sense and the Mechanical Mind
3: Scientific Knowledge from Making and the Mechanical Mind
4: Demonstrating Scientific Knowledge in Geometry and Civil Philosophy
5: Hobbesian Natural Philosophy as Mixed Mathematics
6: Experience in Hobbesian Civil Philosophy and Civil History