Introduction Part 1 - The Tradition of Dialogues and Possible Influences on Hobbes 1. Thucydides and the Melian Dialogue Kinch Hoekstra (UC Berkeley, USA) 2. New Wine in Old Bottles: Guicciardini's Dialogue on the Government of Florence (ca. 1521-1524) Stefano Saracino (University of Jena, Germany) 3. Omnium saeculorum philosophus maximus : Galileo received by Hobbes Cornel Zwierlein (Bochum University, Germany) 4. The Danger of a Parliament? The use and abuse of Sir Walter Raleigh's Dialogue in early seventeenth-century Britain Jason Peacey (University College London, UK) 5. Dialogue in 1st Book of Thomas Mores' Utopia Angus Gowland (University College London, UK) 6. Jean Bodin, Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis Catherine Power (York University, Canada) 7.

Bacon's Dialogues, especially the Advertisement Touching an. and The New Atlantis Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (University College London, UK) Part 2 - Hobbes's Dialogues 8. Hidden Dialogues? Hobbes's dialogue with his readers in Hobbes's political philosophy Eva Odzuck (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) 9. Dialogus Physicus and Examinatio & emendatio mathematicæ hodiernæ Raffaella Santi (University of Florence, Italy) 10. De Symbolo Niceno (Latin Leviathan 1st of three dialogues in appendix) Jerónimo Rilla (EHESS, France) 11. De Haeresi (Latin Leviathan 2nd of three dialogues in appendix) Eric Marquer (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France) 12. De quibusdam objectionibus contra Leviathan (Latin Leviathan 3rd of three dialogues in appendix) Jon Parkin (University of Oxford, UK) 13. Reformed Ethics and the Bramhall Debate: Hobbes's Questions concerning liberty, necessity, and chance and the reformed textbook tradition Noah Dauber (Colgate University, USA) 14.

Behemoth Jeffrey Collins (Queen's University, Canada) 15. Saint Germain, The Doctor and Student, or, dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student in the laws of England and Hobbes's Dialogue on the Common Law Peter Schröder (University College London, UK) Part 3 - Dialogues Against Hobbes 16. Eachard, Mr Hobbs's [sic] State of Nature Considered in a Dialogue Between Philantus and Timothy and Eachard, Some Opinions of Mr Hobbs considered in a Second Dialogue Luc Foisneau (CNRS, France) 17. Tenison, The Creed of Mr. Hobbes examined in a feigned Conference between him and a Student in Divinity Alexandra Chadwik (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Index.