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Aloysius Patrick Martinich (born June 28, 1946), usually cited as A. P. Martinich, also Al Martinich, is an American analytic philosopher. He is the Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin. His areas of interest are the nature and practice of interpretation, history of modern philosophy, the philosophy of language, the history of political thinking and Thomas Hobbes.

Biography

Martinich has specialized in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He is the author of The Two Gods of Leviathan (1992), Hobbes: A Biography (1999), and 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.

Notes

1. University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Profile, accessed on 28 October 2024
2. A.P. Martinich, ed. (2001). A Companion to Analytic Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. iv–x. ISBN 0-631-21415-1.
3. Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).

External links

• University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Profile, accessed on 28 October 2024.
• Appearances on C-SPAN

• 1946 births
• 20th-century American philosophers
• 21st-century American philosophers
• Analytic philosophers
• American historians of philosophy
• Living people
• American philosophers of language
• American philosophers of religion
• Hobbes scholars
• University of Texas at Austin faculty
• Philosophers from Texas