Knud Haakonssen

Knud Haakonssen FBA FRSE FRHistS (born 1947) is a Danish historian of moral and political philosophy and emeritus Professor of Intellectual History at the University of St. Andrews, known for his work on early modern thought, natural law theory, and the Scottish Enlightenment. He held the Chair of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex between 2005 and 2011.^[1]

• Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)^[2]
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)^[3]
• Foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters^[4]
• Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia^[5]
• Fellow, Royal Historical Society^[6]

• The Science of a Legislator: The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith (Cambridge University Press, 1981).^[7][8]
• Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1996).^[9][10]
• Enlightenments and Religions. 14th C. Th. Dimaras Lecture (2009), Institute for Neohellenic Research, Athens 2010 [pamphlet].

• Thomas Reid, Practical Ethics: Being Lectures and Papers on Natural Religion, Self-Government, Natural Jurisprudence, and the Law of Nations. Edited from the manuscripts with an Introduction and a Commentary. Princeton UP, 1990. Revised edition: Thomas Reid on Practical Ethics, Edinburgh UP, 2007.^[11][12]
• David Hume, Political Essays, with an Introduction. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought, Cambridge UP, 1994. Portuguese translation, Martins Fontes Editora Lda 2003. Serbian translation 2008. Turkish translation, Pinhan Yayincilik 2015.
• Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, with an Introduction. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge UP, 2001. Chinese translation, 2006. Japanese translation 2017.
• (co-ed.) Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man. Edinburgh UP, 2002.
• (co-ed.) Thomas Reid, Essays on the Active Powers of Man. Edinburgh UP, 2010.
• (co-ed.) Thomas Reid on Society and Politics. Papers and Lectures. Edinburgh UP, 2015.
• (co-ed.) Francis Hutcheson, A System of Moral Philosophy, Liberty Fund, in press.
• (general ed.) The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid, Edinburgh UP, 10 vols., 1995–2021.
• (general ed.) Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics, Liberty Press, 43 titles, 41 published. Includes The Works and Correspondence of Francis Hutcheson, 7 vols., 6 published.
• (general ed.) (with F. Grunert, D. Klippel†, Louis Pahlow), Early Modern Natural Law: Studies and Sources, Brill, 2019-
• (general ed.) (with Paul Wood), The Edinburgh Edition of Dugald Stewart, Edinburgh UP, under construction

• (ed.) Traditions of Liberalism. Essays on John Locke, Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, CIS, Sydney, 1988.
• (co-ed.) A Culture of Rights: The Bill of Rights in Philosophy, Politics and Law – 1791 and 1991, Cambridge UP, 1991; paperback 1992.
• (ed.) Enlightenment and Religion: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ideas in Context, Cambridge UP, 1996, paperback ed. 2006.
• (ed.) Grotius, Pufendorf and the Natural Law Tradition, International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy, Dartmouth Publ. Co., 1998.
• (ed.) Adam Smith, International Library of Critical Essays in the History of Philosophy, Dartmouth Publ. Co., 1998.
• (ed.) The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2 vols, Cambridge UP, 2006. Paperback 2011. Chinese translation, China Social Sciences Press, forthcoming (?).
• (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith, Cambridge UP, 2006. Chinese translation, Zhejiang University Press, forthcoming (?).
• (co-ed.) Northern Antiquities and National Identities. Perceptions of Denmark and the North in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, 2008.
• (co-ed.), Dugald Stewart: His Development in Scottish and European Context, special issue of History of European Ideas, 2012.
• (co-ed.), David Hume, International Library of Essays in the History of Political Thought, Ashgate, 2013.
• (ed.) Modern International Thought. A symposium occasioned by David Armitage's Foundations of Modern International Thought, special issue of History of European Ideas, 40 (2014).
• (ed.) Language in Intellectual History: The Work of Hans Aarsleff, special issue of History of European Ideas, 42 (2016).
• (co-ed.) Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754). Learning and Literature in the Nordic Enlightenment, Routledge, 2017.
• (ed.) John Millar and His Circle, special issue of History of European Ideas 45 (2019)
• (ed. with Ian Hunter) Cambridge Companion to Pufendorf, Cambridge University Press, 2023
• (ed. with Frank Grunert) Love as a Principle of Natural Law. The Natural Law Theory of Johann Gottlieb Heineccius and its Contexts (in preparation for Brill)

• Personal website
• University of St Andrews profile
• CV at University of Erfurt