In this seminar Ioannis Evrigenis (Professor of Political Science and Professor of Classical Studies, Tufts University) addresses the question of the status of Hobbes's state of nature. Hobbes claims his account of the state of nature and the social contract are scientific insofar as they are geometrical; Professor Evrigenis argues that they are indeed scientific, but for quite another reason. Ioannis Evrigenis is author of "Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes's State of Nature" (Cambridge University Press, 2014). The seminar is followed by a time of question and answer.

A video version of the seminar is available at https://youtu.be/NBtO0e9cKp8

The seminar took place over Zoom on 9 May 2023, and was hosted by Christopher Watkin (Monash University), as part of the Australian Research Council funded Future Fellowship project "Rewriting the Social Contract: Technology, Ecology, Extremism". This seminar is an initiative of the Social Contract Research Network. To find out more about the SCRN, and to subscribe to email updates, please visit https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/social-contract-research-network

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