Michael Alexander Stewart

Michael ‘Sandy’ Stewart was born on 21 October 1937 in Norwich, England. A philosopher, he carried out ‘meticulous work on the dating of Hume’s manuscripts, which he analysed using the best tools of modern scholarship’, according to John P. Wright. Teaching Fellow at UPenn from 1961 to 1963, he briefly lectured at Brooklyn College and Western University. He moved to the University of Lancaster in 1965, became Senior Lecturer in 1977, and retired as Professor of the History of Philosophy in 1997. He relocated to Edinburgh, where he pursued scholarly interests for many years. 

Member of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Mind Association, and the Royal Institute of Philosophy, he was also Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society in 2009. Former editor of Philosophical Books, Stewart’s notable works include Studies in the Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment (1990), the co-edited Hume and Hume’s Connexions (1995), and Hume’s Philosophy in Historical Perspective, posthumously published (2022).