Hobbes's Materialism in the Early 1640s

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 13 (3):437 – 448 (2005)
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I argue that Hobbes isn't really a materialist in the early 1640s (in, e.g., the Third Objections to Descartes's Meditations). That is, he doesn't assert that bodies are the only substances. However, he does think that bodies are the only substances we can think about using imagistic ideas.

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Soul and mind: Life and thought in the seventeenth century.Daniel Garber - 1998 - In Daniel Garber & Michael Ayers (eds.), The Cambridge history of seventeenth-century philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1--559.
Hobbes versus Descartes.Edwin Curley - 1995 - In Roger Ariew & Marjorie Grene (eds.), Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections, and Replies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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