Duncan, Stewart. "Review of Samantha Frost's LESSONS FROM A MATERIALIST THINKER." NDPR (August 2008).

Frost, Samantha. Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2008. Samantha Frost's book discusses Hobbes's work by looking at his materialism and its connections to ethics and politics. Though she does argue, as the title suggests, that Hobbes can help us understand ourselves, much of the book is given over to the prior task of understanding Hobbes's views. The book falls roughly into three parts. Chapters 1 and 2 consider materialism about the mind, chapters 3 and 4 focus more on determinism and its ethical implications, and chapter 5 is about power. . . . Read the whole review here: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=13807.