Paul Sagar

Paul Sagar
AwardsBIAPT Early Career Award (2020) BIAPT Mid Career Award (2026)
Education
EducationUniversity of Cambridge (PhD, 2014); University of London (MA); University of Oxford (BA)
Philosophical work
Era21st‑century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsKing's College London
Main interests
history of political thought, political theory, moral philosophy
Websitehttps://www.paulsagar.com/

Paul Sagar is a British political theorist and Reader in Political Theory at King's College London. His work focuses on the history of political thought, especially the Scottish Enlightenment (including the works of David Hume and Adam Smith), as well as contemporary normative political theory.

Sagar is a quadriplegic due to a climbing incident in 2023.

Books

References

  1. ↑ "BIAPT 2020 Early-Career Prize Winner: Dr Paul Sagar". BIAPT. 3 October 2020.
  2. ↑ "BIAPT 2026 Mid-Career Prize Winner: Dr Paul Sagar". BIAPT. 11 September 2026.
  3. ↑ "Paul Sagar – personal website". paulsagar.com. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "Paul Sagar – KCL profile". King’s College London. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  5. ↑ Paul Sagar. "'I wish I could say I kept my cool': my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ Fricke, Christel (9 October 2018). "Review of The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith". NDPR. ISSN 1538-1617.
  7. ↑ Schweizer, Karl W. (17 November 2022). "The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith: by Paul Sagar, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2018, 280 pp., $45.00/£37.95 (cloth)". The European Legacy. 27 (7–8): 862–864. doi:10.1080/10848770.2021.1985241. ISSN 1084-8770.
  8. ↑ Hanley, Ryan P. (July 2019). "Paul Sagar: The Opinion of Mankind: Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xii, 248.)". The Review of Politics. 81 (3): 527–529. doi:10.1017/S0034670519000093. ISSN 0034-6705.
  9. ↑ "Adam Smith Reconsidered – book page". Preigu.de. Retrieved 13 November 2025.
  10. ↑ Floris, Giacomo (2025). "Review of Basic Equality". The Review of Politics. 87 (3): 465–467. doi:10.1017/S0034670525000129.