Concerning the mind-body relationship,Hobbes denied the existence of a nonmaterial mind;therefore,he was a(n):

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Hobbes believed in physical monism, which states that everything is made up of matter and there is no separate nonphysical aspect to the mind. Thus, he denied the existence of a nonmaterial mind and did not believe in any kind of interaction between mind and body (interactionism), or that mental states are simply byproducts of physical processes (epiphenomenalism), or that there is a parallelism or correspondence between mental and physical events (psychophysical parallelism).

Concerning the Mind-Body Relationship,Hobbes Denied the Existence of a Nonmaterial