Sarah Hutton

Sarah Hutton

Sarah Hutton (* 1948 ) is a British historian of philosophy and science.

Hutton studied at the University of Cambridge (New Hall) and did research for her doctoral thesis at the Warburg Institute in London. She has taught at the University of Hertfordshire , Middlesex University and is Professor at Aberystwyth University in Wales.

She was Belle van Zuylen visiting professor at the University of Utrecht and Gildersleeve visiting professor at Barnard College, Columbia University , visiting professor at the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot), at the University of York and at the University of Paderborn and was a visiting scholar at the Huntington Library (dem current location of the library of the former Dibner Institute), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Wolfson College in Cambridge and the Institute for Intellectual History at the University of St. Andrews .

She dealt with British philosophy in the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly the Cambridge Platonists ( Henry More and others) and platonism in general in the early modern period, the Quakers and women as philosophers like Anne Conway and Émilie du Châtelet .

She re-edited the letters of Anne Conway (originally by Marjorie Nicolson at Oxford University Press) and the Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality by Ralph Cudworth (Cambridge University Press 1996). She is working on an edition of Christian Ethicks by Thomas Traherne .

From 1996 to 2004 she chaired the British Society for the History of Philosophy. She serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of the History of Philosophy and The British Journal of the History of Philosophy.

Fonts

• Anne Conway, a woman philosopher, Cambridge University Press 2004
• British Philosophy in the 17th century, Oxford History of Philosophy, Oxford University Press 2015
• Publisher: Henry More (1614–1687) tercentennary studies, Kluwer 1990 (therein Henry More and Jacob Boehme )
• Editor with Douglas Hedley: Platonism and the origin of modernity, Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy, Springer 2008
• Editor with Paul Schuurman: Studies on Locke: Sources, Contemporaries and Legacy, Springer 2008
• Benjamin Furly (1646–1714): a Quaker Merchant and his Milieu, Florence: Olschki 2007
• with James E. Force: Newton and Newtonism, Kluwer 2004
• The Cambridge Platonists , Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Web links

• Biographical information on the occasion of a visiting professorship at the University of York