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Dr. Paul Sagar is a Reader in Political Theory at the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London. He studied PPE at Balliol College, Oxford, holds an MA in Intellectual History and History of Political Thought from the University of London, and earned his PhD at the University of Cambridge. From 2014 to 2018, he served as a Junior Research Fellow in Politics at King’s College, Cambridge, before joining King’s College London.
His research spans the history of political thought and contemporary political theory, focusing on Enlightenment thinkers (Hobbes, Hume, Smith) and themes like the state, liberty, moral equality, and political realism. His monographs include The Opinion of Mankind (2018), Adam Smith Reconsidered (2022), and Basic Equality (2024). Current work explores 'basic' human moral equality, requiring interdisciplinary inquiry.
- 2025: Adam Smith, David Hume, and the problem of moral relativism (accepted)
- 2025: Bernard Williams and the relativism of distance: a defence (accepted)
- 2024: Basic Equality (book)
- 2023: Adam Smith, sufficientarian (chapter)
- 2022: Adam Smith Reconsidered (book)
- 2021: On the Liberty of the English: Adam Smith’s Reply to Montesquieu and Hume
- 2020: Adam Smith's Genealogy of Religion
- 2020: Between Virtue and Knavery: Hume and the Politics of Moderation
- 2019: Liberty, Nondomination, Markets
- 2018: Adam Smith and the Conspiracy of the Merchants
- 2018: Bhishma's Boon: Reflections on the Complexity of Immortality
- 2017: Beyond sympathy: Smith’s rejection of Hume’s moral theory
- 2016: The State Without Sovereignty: Authority and Obligation in Hume’s Political Philosophy
- 2015: Of mushrooms and method: History and the family in Hobbes’s science of politics
Scientific Awards
- British and Irish Association for Political Theory Early Career Award (2020) for outstanding research and teaching contributions.
He supervises PhD students in early modern political thought (Hume, Smith, Scottish Enlightenment) and realist political theory. His work bridges academic and public audiences, appearing in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, and Aeon.co.
