Faculty

Martinich, A.P.
Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy; Joint Professor with History and Philosophy

Office: WAG 416A
Phone: 512-471-6770
martinich@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Research interests:
A.P. Martinich (Ph.D. 1973, California-San Diego) is Roy Allison Vaughn Centennial Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Government, and Professor of History. A specialist in the history of modern philosophy and the philosophy of language, as well as the history of political philosophy, his books include Communication and Reference (1984), The Two Gods of Leviathan (Cambridge, 1992), A Hobbes Dictionary (Blackwell, 1995), and Thomas Hobbes (St. MartinA-s, 1997). He is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of The Journal of the History of Philosophy, and has twice held NEH Fellowships.

Field(s) of Study: Political Theory

Recent Publications:
His book, Hobbes: A Biography (Cambridge, 1999) won the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Award for 2000. He has also translated Hobbes' Computatio sive logica: Part One of De Corpore (1981), is editor of the leading anthology on The Philosophy of Language (fourth edition, Oxford, 2001), and is co-editor with David Sosa of A Companion to Analytic Philosophy (Blackwell, 2002).