Philip Pettit

Philip Pettit AC
Born	Philip Noel Pettit 1945 (age 79–80) Ballygar, Ireland
Education
Alma mater	Maynooth College Queen's University Belfast

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 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. ^[7] 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. ^[8]

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). ^[9]

Affiliations and honours

• Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1987) ^[10]
• Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1988) ^[11]
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009) ^[12]
• Honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy (2010) ^[13]
• Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2013) ^[14]
• Member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS ^[15]
• Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia) ^[16]

Selected bibliography

Books

• 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 ^[17]
• 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) ^[18]
• "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 José Luis Martí
• 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

• 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

1. "Philip Pettit: Homepage". Princeton University. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
2. "Philip Pettit". Cato-unbound.org. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
3. Archived 20 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Five named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
5. "British Academy | Elections to the Fellowship – British Academy". Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
6. "Philip Pettit – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
7. "El maestro Pettit examina al alumno Zapatero" (PDF). Princeton University. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
8. "The reading list" (PDF). Tampereclub.org. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
9. "Common Minds – Geoffrey Brennan; Robert Goodin; Frank Jackson; Michael Smith – Oxford University Press". Oup.com. 19 July 2007. Archived from the original on 19 October 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
10. "Fellos List – ASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
11. "Fellow Profile: Philip Pettit". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 27 April 2024.
12. "Five named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
13. https://www.ria.ie/news-(1)/royal-irish-academy-honours-top-academics.aspx%5B%5D
14. "British Academy | Elections to the Fellowship – British Academy". Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
15. Fundacion IDEAS website Archived 15 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine , fundacionideas.es; accessed 13 March 2015. (in Spanish)
16. "PETTIT, Philip Noel". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
17. See "Republican Criminology and Victim Advocacy: Comment" for an article concerning the book in Law and Society Review , Vol. 28, No. 4 (1994), pp. 765–776.
18. Lloyd, S. A. (2009). "Book Review: Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics by Philip Pettit". Ethics. 119 (3): 590–594. doi:10.1086/598852. S2CID   157398503.

Further reading

• 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

External links

• Profile: Philip Pettit, princeton.edu; accessed 13 March 2015.
• Pettit: Republican reflections on the 15-M movement, in Books and Ideas; accessed 13 March 2015.
• Eye to Eye: an interview with Pettit by Petri Koikkalainen and Sami Syrjämäki, academia.edu; accessed 13 March 2015.
• Philip Pettit at IMDb