Crucial Evidence: Hobbes on Contractual Obligation

  • Luciano Venezia National University of Quilmes and National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)
Keywords: underdetermination of interpretation, crucial evidence, Hobbes, contractual obligation
Agencies: National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET)

Abstract

In this article I introduce the notion of crucial evidence and I use it to shed light on an ongoing scholarly controversy in Hobbes studies, namely whether Hobbes holds a prudential or a deontological theory of contractual obligation. Even though there is important evidence for both readings, I argue that there is crucial evidence for interpreting Hobbes’s account in a deontological fashion.

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Published
2016-06-30
How to Cite
Venezia L. (2016). Crucial Evidence: Hobbes on Contractual Obligation. Las Torres de Lucca. International Journal of Political Philosophy, 5(8), 151-184. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/LTDL/article/view/76921