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Aidan Fusco is interested in the intellectual history of rhetoric and logic in 17th century England, with a particular emphasis on the so-called 'problem of universals', the debate concerning the precise relationship between words and the things they describe. His thesis is on the philosopher Thomas Hobbes’s (1588-1679) contribution to that debate, and its relationship with Hobbes’s wider thought.
Aidan Fusco holds an LAHP studentship, awarded by the AHRC.
PhD
Supervisors: Angus Gowland (primary supervisor), Quentin Skinner (secondary).
Working Title: “Words and Things in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes”.
Expected completion date: 2024
Publications:
“On Leibniz’s Description of Hobbes as plusquam nominalis” in the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History’s blog, accessible here:
https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/on-leibnizs-description-of-hobbes-as-plusquam-nominalis-16701677#/ .
'On Leibniz's Description of Hobbes as 'plusquam nominalis', 1670-1677', in the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History's blog, 28th Feb 2021, accessible here: https://intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/on-leibnizs-description-of-hobbes-as-plusquam-nominalis-16701677#/.
'English translation of poems by Giambattista Marino and Eugenio Montale' in the Journal of Italian Translation, Vol. XVI, Spring 2021, pp. 146-153.
