Philip Pettit

Philip Noel Pettit
Born 1945
Ballygar, County Galway, Ireland
Nationality Irish, Australian
Alma mater Queen's University, Belfast
Main interests
 Political philosophy, Republicanism

Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and also Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National 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] He 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 honours, including an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland. He was keynote speaker at Graduate Conference, University of Toronto.[4]

Pettit defends 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. 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).[7]

Affiliations and honors

Selected bibliography

Books

Chapters in books

References

  1. ↑ "Philip Pettit: Homepage". Princeton.edu. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
  2. ↑ "Philip Pettit - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
  3. ↑ "Philip Pettit". Cato-unbound.org. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
  4. ↑ Archived 20 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "El maestro Pettit examina al alumno Zapatero" (PDF). Princeton.edu. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
  6. ↑ "The reading list" (PDF). Tampereclub.org. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
  7. ↑ "Common Minds - Geoffrey Brennan; Robert Goodin; Frank Jackson; Michael Smith - Oxford University Press". Oup.com. 2007-07-19. Retrieved 2015-03-14.
  8. ↑ https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/02/44G04/index.xml
  9. ↑ https://www.ria.ie/news-(1)/royal-irish-academy-honours-top-academics.aspx
  10. ↑ http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=24674
  11. ↑ Fundacion IDEAS website, fundacionideas.es; accessed 13 March 2015. (Spanish)
  12. ↑ 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.

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