Irish philosopher and political theorist
Philip Noel Pettit
AC
(born 1945) is an
Irish
philosopher
and
political theorist
. He is the
Laurance S. Rockefeller
University Professor of Politics and Human Values at
Princeton University
and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the
Australian National University
.
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Education and career
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Pettit was educated at
Garbally College
, the
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
(BA, LPh, MA) and
Queen's University, Belfast
(PhD).
He has been a lecturer at
University College, Dublin
, a research fellow at
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
, and professor at the
University of Bradford
.
[2]
He was for many years professorial fellow in social and political theory at the Research School of Social Sciences,
Australian National University
before becoming a visiting professor of philosophy at Columbia University for five years, then moving to Princeton.
He is the recipient of numerous honours, including an
honorary doctorate
from the
National University of Ireland
.
He was keynote speaker at Graduate Conference,
University of Toronto
.
[3]
He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 2009,
[4]
and a Corresponding Fellow of the
British Academy
in 2013.
[5]
He has also been a
Guggenheim Fellow
.
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Philosophical work
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Pettit defends a version of
civic republicanism
in political philosophy. His book
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government
provided the underlying justification for political reforms in Spain under
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
.
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Pettit detailed his relationship with Zapatero in his
A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain
, co-authored with Jose Luis Marti.
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Pettit holds that the lessons learned when thinking about problems in one area of philosophy often constitute ready-made solutions to problems faced in completely different areas. Views he defends in philosophy of mind give rise to the solutions he offers to problems in metaphysics about the nature of free will, and to problems in the philosophy of the social sciences, and these in turn give rise to the solutions he provides to problems in moral philosophy and political philosophy. His corpus as a whole was the subject of a series of critical essays published in
Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit
(Oxford University Press, 2007).
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Affiliations and honours
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Selected bibliography
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Books
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- The Concept of Structuralism: a Critical Analysis
(1975)
- Judging justice: an introduction to contemporary political philosophy
(1980)
- Rawls: 'A Theory of Justice' and its critics
(1990) with
Chandran Kukathas
- The Common Mind; an essay on psychology, society and politics
(1993)
- Not Just Deserts. A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice
(
ISBN
978-0-19-824056-3
) with
John Braithwaite
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- Republicanism: a theory of freedom and government
(1997)
- Three Methods of Ethics: a debate
(1997) with
Marcia Baron
and
Michael Slote
- A Theory of Freedom: from psychology to the politics of agency
(2001)
- Rules, Reasons and Norms: selected essays
(2002)
- The Economy of Esteem
: an essay on civil and political society
(2004) with
Geoffrey Brennan
- Mind, Morality, and Explanation: Selected Collaborations
(with Frank Jackson and Michael Smith) (Oxford University Press, 2004)
- Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
(2007)
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- "Joining the Dots" in
Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit
(2007) edited by Geoffrey Brennan,
Robert E. Goodin
, Frank Jackson and Michael Smith
- A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain
(2010) with Jose Luis Marti
- Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents.
(2011) with Christian List
- On The People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy.
(2012)
- Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World.
(2015)
- The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect.
(2015)
- The State
(2023)
Chapters in books
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- Pettit, Philip (2004), "The common good", in
Dowding, Keith
;
Pateman, Carole
; Goodin, Robert E. (eds.),
Justice and democracy: essays for Brian Barry
, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 25?39,
ISBN
9780521836951
.
- Pettit, Philip (2009), "Freedom in the spirit of Sen", in Morris, Christopher (ed.),
Amartya Sen
, Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 91?114,
ISBN
9780521618069
References
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Further reading
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- Dimova-Cookson, Maria (2012), "Republicanism, philosophy of freedom, and the history of ideas: an interview with Philip Pettit.", in Browning, Gary; Dimova-Cookson, Maria;
Prokhovnik, Raia
(eds.),
Dialogues with contemporary political theorists
, Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155?169,
ISBN
9780230303058
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