First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. Hobbes's writings are dominated by a preoccupation with science: what it is, how it is organized and learned, and why creatures like us cannot do well without it.

Chapter 1 The Science of Politics and the Unity of Science; Chapter 2 The Part s of Science and the Methods of Science; Chapter 3 Knowledge and Power in Fallen Man; Chapter 4 Two Problems with Demonstrative Science; Chapter 5 First Principles, First Causes and the Sciences of Motion; Chapter 6 Motion, Phantasms and the Objects of Sense; Chapter 7 Sense, Thought and Motivation; Chapter 8 The Pursuit of Felicity and the Good of Survival; Chapter 9 Absolute Submission, Undivided Sovereignty; Chapter 10 Sedition, Submission and Science;