Aloysius P. Martinich | |
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Born | (1946-06-28)June 28, 1946 (age 78) |
Nationality | American |
Other names | A. P. Martinich |
Education | University of Windsor (BA, 1969) UCSD (MA 1971; PhD 1973) |
Spouse | Leslie Martinich |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic philosophy |
Institutions | University of Texas at Austin |
Main interests | Philosophy of language |
Website | liberalarts |
Aloysius Patrick Martinich (born June 28, 1946), usually cited asA. P. Martinich, alsoAl Martinich,[1] is an Americananalytic philosopher. He is the Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor Emeritus in Philosophy atUniversity of Texas at Austin.[2][3] His areas of interest are the nature and practice of interpretation, history ofmodern philosophy, thephilosophy of language, thehistory of political thinking andThomas Hobbes.
Martinich has specialized in the philosophy of language and the philosophy ofThomas Hobbes. He is the author ofThe Two Gods of Leviathan (1992),Hobbes: A Biography (1999), andHobbes's Political Philosophy (2021).