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Christianity and Platonism: A HistoryCambridge University Press. forthcoming.This is the first volume to offer a systematic consideration and comprehensive overview of Christianity’s long engagement with the Platonic philosophical tradition. The book offers a detailed consideration of the most fertile sources and concepts in Christian Platonism, a historical contextualization of its development, and a series of constructive engagements with central questions. Bringing together a range of leading scholars, the volume guides readers through each of these dimensions, unique…Read more
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The Metaphysics of Dao in W ang Bi’s Interpretation of LaoziDao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy 18 (2): 219-240. 2019.WANG Bi 王弼 develops a metaphysic of Dao 道 in his Commentary on Laozi and “The Structure of Laozi’s Subtle Pointers.” I summarize this metaphysic as the following thesis: Dao is featureless and is the ultimate reason why the myriad things exist and are the ways they are. I develop a systematic account of this thesis: I provide an interpretation of the featurelessness of Dao and show how Dao’s featurelessness relates to its fundamental explanatory role as the ontological ground for the myriad thin…Read more
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Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?Oup Usa. 2010.
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Plotinus on intellectOxford University Press. 2007.
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Plotinus on Sense-Perception: A Philosophical StudyCambridge University Press. 1988.This book is a philosophical analysis of Plotinus' views on sense-perception. It aims to show how his thoughts were both original and a development of the ideas of his predecessors, in particular those of Plato, Aristotle and the Peripatetics. Special attention is paid to Plotinus' dualism with respect to soul and body and its implications for his views on the senses. The author combines a historical approach to his subject, setting Plotinus' thought in the context of thinkers who preceded and s…Read more
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Plotinus: myth, metaphor and philosophical practiceUniversity of Chicago Press. 2016.
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Patrides, Plotinus and the Cambridge PlatonistsBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (5): 858-877. 2017.Discussion of the Cambridge Platonists, by Constantinos Patrides and others, is often vitiated by the mistaken contrasts drawn between those philosophers and late antique Platonists such as Plotinus. I draw attention especially to Patrides’s errors, and argue in particular that Plotinus and his immediate followers were as concerned about this world and our immediate duties to our neighbours as the Cambridge Platonists. Even the doctrine of deification is one shared by all Platonists, though it i…Read more
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The middle Platonists, 80 B.C. to A.D. 220Cornell University Press. 1977.
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Aristotle and other PlatonistsCornell University Press. 2005."Aristotle versus Plato. For a long time that is the angle from which the tale has been told, in textbooks on the history of philosophy and to university students. Aristotle's philosophy, so the story goes, was au fond in opposition to Plato's. But it was not always thus."--from the Introduction In a wide-ranging book likely to cause controversy, Lloyd P. Gerson sets out the case for the "harmony" of Platonism and Aristotelianism, the standard view in late antiquity. He aims to show that the twe…Read more
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God the Creator; on the transcendence and presence of GodUniversity of Chicago Press. 1968.
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Salving the phenomena of mind: energy, hegemonikon, and sympathy in CudworthBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (3): 465-486. 2017.Ralph Cudworth’s theory of mind was the most fully developed philosophical psychology among the Cambridge Platonists. Like his seventeenth-century contemporaries, Cudworth discussed mental powers in terms of soul rather than mind and considered the function of the soul to be not merely intellectual, but vital and moral. Cudworth conceived the soul as a single self-determining unit which combined many powers. He developed this against a philosophical agenda set by Descartes and Hobbes. But he tur…Read more
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Platonism and the English ImaginationCambridge University Press. 1994.
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Ralph Cudworth: A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1996.Ralph Cudworth deserves recognition as one of the most important English seventeenth-century philosophers after Hobbes and Locke. In opposition to Hobbes, Cudworth proposes an innatist theory of knowledge which may be contrasted with the empirical position of his younger contemporary Locke, and in moral philosophy he anticipates the ethical rationalists of the eighteenth century. A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality is his most important work, and this volume makes it available, …Read more
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British Philosophy in the Seventeenth CenturyOxford University Press. 2015.
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Anne Conway: A Woman PhilosopherCambridge University Press. 2004.This 2004 book was the first intellectual biography of one of the very first English women philosophers. At a time when very few women received more than basic education, Lady Anne Conway wrote an original treatise of philosophy, her Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, which challenged the major philosophers of her day - Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. Sarah Hutton's study places Anne Conway in her historical and philosophical context, by reconstructing her social and intellectu…Read more
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The Cambridge Platonists: some new studiesBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (5): 851-857. 2017.
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Gods and giants: Cudworth’s platonic metaphysics and his ancient theologyBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (5): 932-953. 2017.The Cambridge Platonists are modern thinkers and the context of seventeenth-century Cambridge science is an inalienable and decisive part of their thought. Cudworth’s interest in ancient theology, however, seems to conflict with the progressive aspect of his philosophy. The problem of the nature, however, of this ‘Platonism’ is unavoidable. Even in his complex and recondite ancient theology Cudworth is motivated by philosophical considerations, and his legacy among philosophers in the eighteenth…Read more
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Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the SpiritCambridge University Press. 2000.Coleridge's relation to his German contemporaries constitutes the toughest problem in assessing his standing as a thinker. For the last half-century this relationship has been described, ultimately, as parasitic. As a result, Coleridge's contribution to religious thought has been seen primarily in terms of his poetic genius. This book revives and deepens the evaluation of Coleridge as a philosophical theologian in his own right. Coleridge had a critical and creative relation to, and kinship with…Read more
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Sacrifice Imagined: Violence, Atonement, and the SacredContinuum International Publishing Group. 2011.’Sacrifice Imagined’ is an original exploration of the idea of sacrifice by one of the world’s pre-eminent philosophers of religion. Despisers of religion have poured scorn upon the idea of sacrifice as an index of the irrational and wicked in religious practice. Nor does its secularised form seem much more appealing. One need only think of the appalling cult of sacrifice in numerous totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century. Yet, sacrifice remains a part of our cultural and intellectual ’im…Read more
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Platonism and the Origins of Modernity: The Platonic Tradition and the Rise of Modern Philosophy (edited book)Springer. 2008.International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, Vol. 196. -/- Introduction, S. Hutton; Nicholas of Cusa : Platonism at the Dawn of Modernity, D. Moran; At Variance: Marsilio Ficino Platonism And Heresy, M.J.B. Allen; Going Naked into the Shrine:Herbert, Plotinus and the Consructive Metaphor, S.R.L.Clark; Commenius, Light Metaphysics and Educational Reform, J. Rohls ; Robert Fludd’s Kabbalistic Cosmos, W. Schmidt-Biggeman; Reconciling Theory and Fact:…Read more
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