External links
- University of Texas at Austin, Faculty Profile Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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| Born | June 28, 1946 |
| 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 as A. P. Martinich, is an American analytic philosopher. He is the Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at University of Texas at Austin. [1] [2] His area of interest is the nature and practice of interpretation, history of modern philosophy, the philosophy of language, the history of political thinking and Thomas Hobbes.
Martinich has specialized in the philosophy of language and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He is the author of The Two Gods of Leviathan (1992), Hobbes: A Biography (1999), and Hobbes's Political Philosophy (2021).
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