The International Hobbes Association will be hosting two sessions at the American Philosophical Association 2024 Eastern Division meeting, New York, New York.

Room assignments will be available in the APA Meeting program and added here during the meeting.

Click title for abstract and (when available) a draft of the paper.

Session 1: Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 7–10pm

Chair: Jenny Schiff (CUNY Graduate Center) 

• Rosamond Rhodes (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai & The Graduate Center, CUNY) "Herman's Hobbesian Kant"
• Matthew Delhey (University of Toronto) "Locke contra Hobbes on Opinion: A Social-Theoretic Defect of Leviathan?"
• Claudia Dumitru (Princeton University) "Trust and Inequality in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes"
• Tiancheng Yu (University of St Andrews) "The Discovery of Zoic Reasoning: Hobbes contra Aristotle"

Session 2: Wed, Jan 17, 2024, 7–10pm

Chair: Michael Byron (Kent State University)

• Zhuangwei Li (University of St Andrews) "Hobbes on the Source of the Right to Punish"
• Eleanor Curran (University of Kent) "The Significance of Hobbes's Relationship to the Intellectual Libertines in France in the 1640s"
• Marcus Adams (SUNY Albany) "Hobbes’s Principles of Motion in Leviathan: Imagination and Curiosity"
• Franziska Poszler (Institute for Ethics in AI, Technical University of Munich) "Transferring Hobbes's Political Theory to Legitimate Autonomous Vehicles as Absolute Sovereigns in Road Traffic Operations?"