Publications

Forthcoming and published work (publications under contract and in preparation see below)

Books / Thesis / edited books and journals

K. Haakonssen and C. Maurer, eds. (submitted): Francis Hutcheson, A System of Moral Philosophy, 2 vols. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund (Critical edition)
Maurer, Christian (2019): Self–Love, Egoism and the Selfish Hypothesis: Key Debates From Eighteenth-Century British Moral Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (Book)

Maurer, Christian & Gellera, Giovanni (eds.) (2020): Contexts of Religious Tolerance: New Perspectives from Early Modern Britain and Beyond. Special issue of Global Intellectual History (2/2020).
Maurer, Christian; Milligan, Tony and Pacovská, Kamila (eds.) (2014): Love and Its Objects: What Can We Care For? Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Edited Book)
Maurer, Christian (2009): Self–Love in Early 18th–Century British Moral Philosophy: Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, Butler and Campbell. Doctoral Thesis, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 402 pp. (Doctoral Thesis)

Articles

Maurer, Christian (2020): ‘On the Power of Natural Reason. A Transcript and Commentary of Two Letters From John Simson to Archibald Campbell in 1736’. History of European Ideas (Critical edition of two letters with an explanatory journal article)
Maurer, Christian (2020): ‘“The Grievances from Toleration”: Scotland heading towards the Enlightenment’. In Global Intellectual History (2/2020), special issue ‘Contexts of Religious Tolerance: New Perspectives from Early Modern Britain and Beyond.’Ed. C. Maurer and G. Gellera (Journal article)
Maurer, Christian & Gellera, Giovanni (2020): ‘Introduction – Contexts of Religious Tolerance: New Perspectives from Early Modern Britain and Beyond’. In Global Intellectual History (2/2020), special issue ‘Contexts of Religious Tolerance: New Perspectives from Early Modern Britain and Beyond.’Ed. C. Maurer and G. Gellera (Journal article)
Maurer, Christian (2018): ‘Francis Hutcheson’. In: Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Online, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/hutcheson-francis-1694-1746/v-2 (Encyclopaedia article)
Maurer, Christian (2017): ‘Archibald Campbell’. In: Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Online, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/campbell-archibald-1691-1756/v-1 (Encyclopaedia article)
Maurer, Christian (2016): ‘A lapsu corruptus–Calvinist Doctrines and Seventeenth-Century Scottish Theses ethicæ.’ History of Universities, Vol. XXIX (2/2016), pp. 193-214 (Journal article for a special issue on seventeenth-century Scottish philosophy teaching in History of Universities, edited by Alexander Broadie and Steven Reid)
Maurer, Christian (2016): ‘Doctrinal Issues Concerning Human Nature and Self–Love, and The Case of Archibald Campbell.’ Intellectual History Review (3/2016), pp. 355-369. (Journal Article. Special Issue of Intellectual History Review, ed. by Richard Whatmore: Calvinism and Enlightenment at Scotland and at Geneva in the Eighteenth Century)
Maurer, Christian (2016): ‘Archibald Campbell and the Committee for Purity of Doctrine on Natural Reason, Natural Religion, and Revelation.’ History of European Ideas (2/2016), pp. 256-275. (Journal article)
Maurer, Christian (2014): ‘What Can an Egoist Say Against an Egoist? On Archibald Campbell’s Criticisms of Bernard Mandeville.’ Journal of Scottish Philosophy (1/2014), pp. 1–14. (Journal article)
Maurer, Christian and Jaffro, Laurent (2013): ‘Reading Shaftesbury’s Pathologia: An Illustration and Defence of the Stoic Account of the Passions. (PART I)’ History of European Ideas (2/2013), pp. 207–220. (Journal article: Introduction and Commentary to the Edition of Shaftesbury’s Latin Manuscript Pathologia)
Jaffro, Laurent; Maurer, Christian and Petit, Alain (2013): ‘Pathologia, a Theory of the Passions. (PART II)’ History of European Ideas (2/2013), pp. 221–240. (Journal article: Latin text, English translation of Shaftesbury’s manuscript ‘Pathologia’)
Maurer, Christian (2012): ‘Archibald Campbell’s Views of Self–Cultivation and Self–Denial in Context’, The Journal of Scottish Philosophy (1/2012), pp. 13–27. (Journal article)
Maurer, Christian (2010): ‘Hutcheson’s Relation to Stoicism in the Light of his Moral Psychology’, The Journal of Scottish Philosophy (1/2010), pp. 33–49. (Journal article)
Maurer, Christian (2006): ‘Two Approaches to Self–Love: Hutcheson and Butler’, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy (2/2006), pp. 81–96. (Journal article)
Maurer, Christian (2005): ‘Szenische Umsetzung als Beispiel für eine Methode der intensiven Texterarbeitung’, Zeitschrift für Didaktik der Philosophie und Ethik (3/2005), pp. 225–230. (Journal article)
Maurer, Christian (2002): ‘Moralische Gefühle und moralisches Umdenken aus korporatistischer Perspektive’, Internationale Zeitschrift für Philosophie (1/2002), pp. 137–163. (Journal article)

Book chapters

Maurer, Christian (2021): ‘Tolerance, Love and Justice’. In: Love, Justice, and Autonomy. Ed. R. Fedock, M. Kühler, R. Rosenhagen. (Series: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory) London: Routledge, pp. 150-166. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2020): ‘Moral Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Scotland.’ In: Scottish Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Ed. Alexander Broadie. (Series: Oxford History of Scottish Philosophy, series ed. G. Graham.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 174-190. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2019): ‘Archibald Campbell et le Committee for the Purity of Doctrine: La définition de l’orthodoxie dans l’église presbytérienne au début des Lumières écossaises. In: Définir l’hétérodoxie dans le protestantisme, entre Églises et États. Eds. Yves Krumenacker and Noémie Recous, Paris: Classiques Garnier, pp. 59-74. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2019): ‘Early Enlightenment Shifts: Simson, Leechman and Campbell.’ In:OxfordHistory of Scottish Theology. Eds. Mark Elliot and David Fergusson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 42-55. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2016): ‘Stoicism in the Scottish Enlightenment.’ In: Routledge Companion to the Stoic Tradition. Ed. John Sellars. Oxford, New York: Routledge, pp. 254-269. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2015): ‘‘Authors of a yet inferior kind’: Les moralistes augustiniens français, Bernard Mandeville et leurs critiques britanniques sur l’amour–propre’. In: Le sentiment moral. Ed. by Béatrice Guion. Paris: Honoré Champion, pp. 95-112. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian; Milligan, Tony and Pacovská, Kamila (2014): ‘Introduction’. In: Love and Its Objects: What Can We Care For? Ed. by Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan, Kamila Pacovská. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–4. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2014): ‘On “Love at First Sight”’. In: Love and Its Objects: What Can We Care For? Ed. by Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan, Kamila Pacovská. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 160–174. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2013): ‘Self–interest and Sociability’. In: The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. Ed. James A. Harris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 291–314. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2013): ‘Facing the Misery of Others: Pity, Pleasure and Tragedy in Scottish Enlightenment Moral Philosophy’. In: The Poetic Enlightenment: Poetry and Human Science in Eighteenth–Century Thought. Ed. Tom E. Jones. London: Pickering & Chatto, pp. 75–87. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian (2011): ‘Vulnerability by Intimacy in Love’. In: Love on Trial. Adjusting and Assigning Relationships. Eds. Nadine Farghaly and Corazón T. Toralba. Freeland: Inter–Disciplinarity Press, pp. 105–113. (Book chapter)
Maurer, Christian and Pacovská, Kamila (2008): ‘Why is it Sometimes Easier to Love Rex and Fiffi than to Love our Adolescent Children?’ In: What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Dog. Ed. Stephen D. Hales. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, pp. 135–44. (Book chapter)

Other relevant publications

Maurer, Christian (2017): What is it we call “Love at First Sight”? (Blog entry for the website thecritique.com)
Maurer, Christian (2016): Review of Thomas Ahnert, The Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, 1690-1805, The Journal of Scottish Philosophy 2/2016, pp. 200-205. (Book review)
Maurer, Christian (2015): The Forgotten Range of Defences of Sociability: Francis Hutcheson and Archibald Campbell on Thomas Hobbes. (Audio recording of a lecture in a seminar at the Institute of Intellectual History, St. Andrews)
Maurer, Christian (2015): Archibald Campbell. (Blog entry for the website www.scottishphilosophy.org)
Maurer, Christian (2015): ‘Wozu rufen wir eigentlich auf, wenn wir zu mehr Toleranz aufrufen?’ (Non-academic blog contribution on www.philosophie.ch)
Maurer, Christian and Naguib, Tarek (2011): ‘Diskriminierung an die Universität!’, Universitas. Das Magazin der Universität Freiburg (März 2011), pp. 49–50. (Non-scientific journal article)
Defila, Rico; Di Giulio, Antonietta and Maurer, Christian (2004): Bibliographie Inter– und Transdisziplinarität. URL: http://www.interdisciplinarity.ch/. (Database)

Publications under contract / in preparation

Books / edited books

Maurer, Christian (in preparation): Erneutes Plädoyer für Toleranz. (Book)
Maurer, Christian (in preparation): L’amour – une passion indéfinissable? Essais sur la philosophie de l’amour. (Book)

Articles / Book chapters

Maurer, Christian (submitted): English translations and edited Latin 17^th–Century Scottish Theses ethicæ, with commentaries, of:
– William Campbell, Theses ethicæ (St. Andrews, 1657);
– Alexander Alexander, Positiones pathologicæ (Aberdeen, 1669);
– George Middleton, Theses ethicæ (Aberdeen, 1675);
– John Boyd,Theses philosophicæ (Glasgow, 1693).
(Book chapters for a volume of Scottish Latin philosophical texts with English translations. Eds. Alexander Broadie and Steven Reid, Scottish History Society).