Post:	Professor of Intellectual History
Location:	Arts A A036
Email:	K.Haakonssen@sussex.ac.uk
Telephone numbers
Internal:	2725
UK:	(01273) 872725
International:	+44 1273 872725

Biography

Knud Haakonssen was educated at the Universities of Copenhagen and Edinburgh and holds doctorates from both. He has been elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and the Royal Historical Society. Before joining the University of Sussex in 2005, he was Professor of Philosophy at Boston University and had previously taught history of ideas, political science, and philosophy in Australia, New Zealand, and Denmark. He has held visiting positions in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Sweden, UK, and the USA. He holds honorary appointments in Philosophy at Boston University and in History at the University of Glasgow. During the academic years 2008-2010, he is working full-time on research projects funded by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.

Role

Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History and founding Director of the Sussex Centre for Intellectual History.

Research

Haakonssen's main research interests are in the history of moral, political and legal thought in the early modern period and in the relationship between Enlightenment and religion. He is co-directing projects on "The Dissenting Academies in the British Isles, 1660-1860" and on "Calvinism and Enlightenment in the Long Eighteenth Century: Comparative Studies of Scotland and Geneva".

Teaching

At Sussex Haakonssen's undergraduate teaching includes courses on the Enlightenment and a Special Subject on the history of human rights. At graduate level he teaches courses on the theory and practice of intellectual history and on the general intellectual history of early-modern philosophy. His current graduate students work on Joseph Priestley's theory of history; language and the theory of mind in the Lockean tradition; Bentham and the idea of virtue; religion in the philosophy of Thomas Reid; Jean Barbeyrac's theory of natural law; James Mill's Commonplace Books in their intellectual context.

Selected publications

2006

German natural law Goldie,M and Wokler,R, ed., in The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought Cambridge: Cambridge University Press pp. 251-290 ISBN 0521374227

The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 423 pp. ISBN 0-521-77059-9

The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1423 pp. ISBN 0-521-41854-6

1996

Enlightenment and Religion: Rational Dissent in Eighteenth-Century Britain Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 360 pp. ISBN 0-521-56060-8

Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 396 pp. ISBN 0-521-49802-3

1981

The Science of a Legislator. The Natural Jurisprudence of David Hume and Adam Smith Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 248 pp. ISBN 0-521-23891-9