Philip Pettit

Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945 Ballygar, County Galway) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University.^[1] He was a Guggenheim Fellow.^[2]

Life

He was educated at Garbally College, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Queen's University, Belfast. He was a lecturer at University College, Dublin, a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and professor at the University of Bradford.^[3] Pettit was for many years Professorial Fellow in Social and Political Theory at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland. He was keynote speaker at Graduate Conference, University of Toronto.^[4]

Pettit is well-known for defending a version of republicanism in political philosophy. His book Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government provided the underlying justification for political reforms in Spain under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.^[5] Pettit detailed his relationship with Zapatero in his A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain, co-authored with José Luis Martí.^[6]

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. Pettit's 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).^[7]

He is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS.^[8]

Works

• 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 9780198240563 (see Republican Criminology and Victim Advocacy: Comment for article concerning the book in Law and Society Review, Vol. 28, No. 4 (1994), pp. 765–776) with John Braithwaite.
• 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
• Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics (2007)
• "A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain" (2010) with José Luis Martí
• "Group Agency: The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents." (2011) with Christian List

References

1. ^ http://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/
2. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/16844-philip-pettit
3. ^ http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/philip-pettit/
4. ^ http://philosophy.utoronto.ca/events/graduate-conference-philipp-pettit-princeton-keynote-speaker
5. ^ http://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/tiempo.pdf
6. ^ http://www.tampereclub.org/Marti_Pettit_New%20Statesman.pdf
7. ^ http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Mind/?view=usa&ci=9780199218165
8. ^ http://www.fundacionideas.es/en/press_room/recent_news/2899

External links

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