Al P. Martinich

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Biography

A specialist in the history of modern philosophy and the philosophy of language, his books include Communication and Reference (1984), The Two Gods of Leviathan (Cambridge, 1992), A Hobbes Dictionary (Blackwell, 1995), and Thomas Hobbes (St. Martin's, 1997). 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, forthcoming). He is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of The Journal of the History of Philosophy, and has twice held NEH Fellowships.