Tim Stuart-Buttle
Biographic Data
| ID | 3096461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Stuart-Buttle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Stuart-Buttle |
| SIGNATURE | STUART-BUTTLE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4104-9807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Between Two Worlds
No reputable academic press nowadays would dream of publishing an edition of Hobbes's Leviathan that amputated its second half, where Hobbes derives his conclusions from the ‘Supernaturall Revelations of the Will of God’ in Scripture. Yet the assumption that once licensed the thought that Parts III and IV, by eschewing the ‘scientific’ logic of Parts I and II, became expendable, retains its grip. This essay, like Leviathan, is divided in two. The…
Recognition and respect in early modern philosophy
Recognition has, over the past three decades, come to occupy a central place in moral and political philosophy, and critical theory; but to the extent that scholars have exhibited an interest in tr
Hobbes and Locke
An introduction to the special issue on Hobbes and Locke: Meaning, Method, Modernity
Hobbes, Locke, and the Christian Commonwealth
Locke refrained from engaging explicitly with Hobbes in any of his writings. Locke’s policy of non-engagement should be interpreted, we argue, neither as evidence of his lack of interest in (or ignorance of) Hobbes’s arguments, nor as an attempt to conceal from the uninitiated Locke’s covert Hobbesian commitments. Locke’s silence reveals rather than conceals. What it reveals is an absolute determination to “distinguish between the business of civ…
The notorious Dr. Middleton
In his brief autobiography, Hume recalls how the publication of the heterodox Anglican clergyman, Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry caused a ‘furore’ in England in 1748, whereas his own Philosophical Essays were ‘neglected’. This has secured Middleton a very marginal place in Hume scholarship. This essay argues that Middleton's importance at a crucial stage of Hume's intellectual development, during the Ninewells years (April 1749 – July 1751), wa…
Paul Sagar, The Opinion of Mankind
An Authority from which there can be no appeal’
Hume's admiration for the Roman philosopher and statesman, Cicero, is well-known. Yet scholars have largely overlooked how Hume's interpretation of Cicero – initially as a Stoic, and subsequently as an academic sceptic – evolved with Hume's own intellectual development. Moreover, scholars tend to focus on Hume's debts to Cicero with regard either to his epistemological scepticism or his philosophy of religion. This essay suggests instead that Hum…
From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and sustaining mechanisms of civil society. Their insights continue to inform how political and moral theorists think about the world in which we live. The aim of this book is to reconstruct a debate which preoccupied contemporaries, but which seem…
Recognition, sociability and intolerance
The period ca.1650–1800 witnessed a concerted, if neglected debate about the implications of mankind's desire for recognition, which bore directly on discussions of sociability and toleration. Here Thomas Hobbes's writings acted as a powerful stimulus. Hobbes argued that even as the desire for recognition in mankind's natural condition induces individuals to seek society, recognition-seeking generates a mistrust and violence that precludes its re…
Colin Heydt, Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Beyond Justice
It is widely accepted that the seventeenth-century natural lawyers constructed the minimal requirement for social coordination between self-seeking individuals animated by the desire for self-preservation. On most interpretations, Grotius and his successors focused on the “perfect” duties (rules of justice) and had little to say about the “imperfect” duties of love and civility. This essay provides an alternative reading of post-Grotian natural l…
Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Ryu Susato, Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment
Hume
James Harris’s book, long anticipated by Hume scholars, purports to offer the first intellectual biography of its subject. Unlike Ernest C. Mossner’s classic (in every sense) Life of David Hume (1954, frequently reprinted), Harris’s primary focus is on the ideas rather than the man. Gone are the jovial anecdotes and apocrypha about le bon David which delighted Mossner; gone, too, are the factual inaccuracies which littered Mossner’s text and reap…
Beyond Justice
It is widely accepted that the seventeenth-century natural lawyers constructed the minimal requirement for social coordination between self-seeking individuals animated by the desire for self-preservation. On most interpretations, Grotius and his successors focused on the “perfect” duties (rules of justice) and had little to say about the “imperfect” duties of love and civility. This essay provides an alternative reading of post-Grotian natural l…
An Authority from which there can be no appeal’
Hume's admiration for the Roman philosopher and statesman, Cicero, is well-known. Yet scholars have largely overlooked how Hume's interpretation of Cicero – initially as a Stoic, and subsequently as an academic sceptic – evolved with Hume's own intellectual development. Moreover, scholars tend to focus on Hume's debts to Cicero with regard either to his epistemological scepticism or his philosophy of religion. This essay suggests instead that Hum…
Hume
James Harris’s book, long anticipated by Hume scholars, purports to offer the first intellectual biography of its subject. Unlike Ernest C. Mossner’s classic (in every sense) Life of David Hume (1954, frequently reprinted), Harris’s primary focus is on the ideas rather than the man. Gone are the jovial anecdotes and apocrypha about le bon David which delighted Mossner; gone, too, are the factual inaccuracies which littered Mossner’s text and reap…
Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Ryu Susato, Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment
From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy
The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries represent a period of remarkable intellectual vitality in British philosophy, as figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Smith attempted to explain the origins and sustaining mechanisms of civil society. Their insights continue to inform how political and moral theorists think about the world in which we live. The aim of this book is to reconstruct a debate which preoccupied contemporaries, but which seem…
Recognition, sociability and intolerance
The period ca.1650–1800 witnessed a concerted, if neglected debate about the implications of mankind's desire for recognition, which bore directly on discussions of sociability and toleration. Here Thomas Hobbes's writings acted as a powerful stimulus. Hobbes argued that even as the desire for recognition in mankind's natural condition induces individuals to seek society, recognition-seeking generates a mistrust and violence that precludes its re…
Colin Heydt, Moral Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Beyond Justice
It is widely accepted that the seventeenth-century natural lawyers constructed the minimal requirement for social coordination between self-seeking individuals animated by the desire for self-preservation. On most interpretations, Grotius and his successors focused on the “perfect” duties (rules of justice) and had little to say about the “imperfect” duties of love and civility. This essay provides an alternative reading of post-Grotian natural l…
An Authority from which there can be no appeal’
Hume's admiration for the Roman philosopher and statesman, Cicero, is well-known. Yet scholars have largely overlooked how Hume's interpretation of Cicero – initially as a Stoic, and subsequently as an academic sceptic – evolved with Hume's own intellectual development. Moreover, scholars tend to focus on Hume's debts to Cicero with regard either to his epistemological scepticism or his philosophy of religion. This essay suggests instead that Hum…
Paul Sagar, The Opinion of Mankind
The notorious Dr. Middleton
In his brief autobiography, Hume recalls how the publication of the heterodox Anglican clergyman, Conyers Middleton's Free Inquiry caused a ‘furore’ in England in 1748, whereas his own Philosophical Essays were ‘neglected’. This has secured Middleton a very marginal place in Hume scholarship. This essay argues that Middleton's importance at a crucial stage of Hume's intellectual development, during the Ninewells years (April 1749 – July 1751), wa…
Recognition and respect in early modern philosophy
Recognition has, over the past three decades, come to occupy a central place in moral and political philosophy, and critical theory; but to the extent that scholars have exhibited an interest in tr
Hobbes and Locke
An introduction to the special issue on Hobbes and Locke: Meaning, Method, Modernity
Hobbes, Locke, and the Christian Commonwealth
Locke refrained from engaging explicitly with Hobbes in any of his writings. Locke’s policy of non-engagement should be interpreted, we argue, neither as evidence of his lack of interest in (or ignorance of) Hobbes’s arguments, nor as an attempt to conceal from the uninitiated Locke’s covert Hobbesian commitments. Locke’s silence reveals rather than conceals. What it reveals is an absolute determination to “distinguish between the business of civ…
Between Two Worlds
No reputable academic press nowadays would dream of publishing an edition of Hobbes's Leviathan that amputated its second half, where Hobbes derives his conclusions from the ‘Supernaturall Revelations of the Will of God’ in Scripture. Yet the assumption that once licensed the thought that Parts III and IV, by eschewing the ‘scientific’ logic of Parts I and II, became expendable, retains its grip. This essay, like Leviathan, is divided in two. The…
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