Tim Stuart-Buttle, Lecturer in Politics, University of York

Tim Stuart-Buttle is Lecturer in Politics at the University of York and a member of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, Rethinking Civil Society: History, Theory, Critique. Prior to this, he held a postdoctoral research associateship at the University of Cambridge. He has published articles in journals including Locke Studies, History of Political Thought and Political Theory, and essays in collected volumes including The Cambridge Companion to Edward Gibbon (Cambridge 2018). He is the co-editor, with Subha Mukherji, of Literature, Belief, and Knowledge in Early Modern England: Knowing Faith (Palgrave Macmillan 2018).

"From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy is an excellent piece of work. The main narrative is compelling, and StuartButtle clarifies and enriches our understanding of the period from Locke to Hume. No scholar of the subject matter should ignore his achievement." -- Eric Entrican Wilson, Georgia State University, Journal of British Studies 61

"The power behind the book is Stuart-Buttle's breath-taking erudition and exemplary scholar-ship. One of his many virtues is that he is not only well-read in all the relevant books (primary and secondary) but also uses more manuscript sources than is common among conventional intellectual historians...his deft use of unpublished material contributes to the extraordinary richness of this fine book." -- Max Skjönsberg, Intellectual History Review

"[a] rich and rewarding study of British moral philosophy from Locke to Hume" -- James A. Harris, Journal of the History of Philosophy

"In this rigorous, persuasive, and highly accomplished book, Tim Stuart-Buttle sets out to uncover and bring to the fore a crucial but neglected aspect of the history of moral thought in Britain from John Locke to David Hume: the evolution of a fully secular moral philosophy which came to both separate itself from, and in turn repudiate, the moral theology from which it was born. Marshalling a dazzling array of thinkers and sources, which are brought to bear in an impressively focused and unified historical narrative, this monograph constitutes one of the major achievements of recent intellectual history, and provides a significant advance in our understanding of early modern moral philosophy." -- Paul Sagar, History of European Ideas