Companion to Hobbes

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 on Thomas Hobbes and Margaret Cavendish.

• Notes on Contributors viiiIntroduction: The Presentation and Structure of Thomas Hobbes's Philosophy 1Marcus P. AdamsAbbreviations for Citations to Hobbes's Works 20Part I First Philosophy, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy 231 Hobbes's Unified Method for Scientia 25Helen Hattab2 The Stoic Roots of Hobbes's Natural Philosophy and First Philosophy 45Geoffrey Gorham3 Hobbesian Mathematics and the Dispute with Wallis 57Douglas Jesseph4 Explanations in Hobbes's Optics and Natural Philosophy 75Marcus P. AdamsPart II Human Nature and Morality 915 "A Most Useful Economy": Hobbes on Linguistic Meaning and Understanding 93R. W. McIntyre6 Hobbes’s Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure 109Arash Abizadeh7 In search of "A Constant Civill Amity": Hobbes on Friendship and Sociability 125Gabriella Slomp8 Hobbes on Power and Gender Relations 139Sandra Leonie Field9 The State of Nature as a Continuum Concept 156S. A. Lloyd10 Hobbes's Minimalist Moral Theory 171Michael J. GreenPart III Civil Philosophy 18511 Hobbesian Persons and Representation 187Mónica Brito Vieira12 Hobbes's Account of Authorizing a Sovereign 203Rosamond Rhodes13 The Strength and Significance of Subjects' Rights in Leviathan 221Eleanor Curran14 Hobbes on Sovereignty and Its Strains 236Tom Sorell15 Hobbes on International Ethics 252Johan OlsthoornPart IV Religion 26916 Against Philosophical Darkness: A Political Conception of Enlightenment 271Luc Foisneau17 Hobbes on Submission to God 287Michael Byron18 Thomas Hobbes and the Christian Commonwealth 303Jeffrey Collins19 Hobbes and Toleration 318Johann Sommerville20 Hobbes, Rome's Enemy 332Franck Lessay21 Hobbes and the Papal Monarchy 348Patricia SpringborgPart V Controversies and Reception 36522 Body and Space in Hobbes and Descartes 367Edward Slowik23 Hobbes's Mechanical Philosophy and Its English Critics 381John Henry24 Cudworth as a Critic of Hobbes 398Stewart Duncan25 Cavendish and Hobbes on Causation 413Marcy P. Lascano26 Striving, Happiness, and the Good: Spinoza as Follower and Critic of Hobbes 431Justin Steinberg27 Hobbes and Astell on War and Peace 448Jacqueline Broad28 Hobbes and Hume on Human Nature: "Much of a Dispute of Words?" 463Alexandra Chadwick29 He Shows "Genius" and Is "More Useful than Pufendorf": Kant's Reception of Hobbes 478Howard Williams30 Catharine Macaulay and the Reception of Hobbes During the Eighteenth Century 492Karen GreenIndex 505