Aloysius Patrick Martinich (born June 28, 1946), usually cited as A. P. Martinich, is an American

analytic philosopher Analytic philosophy is a branch and tradition of philosophy using analysis, popular in the Western world and particularly the Anglosphere, which began around the turn of the 20th century in the contemporary era in the United Kingdom, United ...

. He is the Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,07 ...

. His area of interest is the nature and practice of interpretation; history of

modern philosophy Modern philosophy is philosophy developed in the modern era and associated with modernity. It is not a specific doctrine or school (and thus should not be confused with ''Modernism''), although there are certain assumptions common to much of i ...

; the

philosophy of language In analytic philosophy, philosophy of language investigates the nature of language and the relations between language, language users, and the world. Investigations may include inquiry into the nature of meaning, intentionality, reference, ...

; the

history of political thinking The history of political thought encompasses the chronology and the substantive and methodological changes of human political thought. The study of the history of political thought represents an intersection of various academic disciplines, suc ...

and

Thomas Hobbes Thomas Hobbes ( ; 5/15 April 1588 – 4/14 December 1679) was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book ''Leviathan'', in which he expounds an influ ...

Biography

Aloysius P. Martinich (June 28, 1946). He has specialized in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of

. He is the author of ''The Two Gods of Leviathan'' (1992), ''Hobbes: A Biography'' (1999), ''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. * ''Thomas Hobbes'' Perspectives on British History, London: Macmillan, 1997. * ''Hobbes: A Biography'', New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. * ''A Companion to Analytic Philosophy'', edited with David Sosa, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001. * ''Leviathan'', Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2002; revised edition with Brian Battiste, 2011. * ''Hobbes'' (The Routledge Philosophers), New York: Routledge, 2005. * ''Early Modern Philosophy: Essential Readings with Commentary'', Malden: Blackwell Readings in the History of Philosophy, 2007. * ''Much Ado About Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference'' (with Avrum Stroll), Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007.

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External links

University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Profile
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