Philip Pettit

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|region = Western philosophy

|era = Contemporary philosophy

|image = Philip Pettit.jpg

|name = Philip Pettit

|honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|size=100%}}

|birth_name = Philip Noel Pettit

|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1945}}

|birth_place = Ballygar, Ireland

|death_date =

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|institutions = Australian National University
Princeton University

|alma_mater = Maynooth College
Queen's University Belfast

|main_interests = Political philosophy, social ontology, philosophy of mind, ethics

|school_tradition = Civic republicanism

}}

Philip Noel Pettit {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC}} (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/ |title=Philip Pettit: Homepage |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=2015-03-14}}

Education and career

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.cato-unbound.org/contributors/philip-pettit |title=Philip Pettit |publisher=Cato-unbound.org |access-date=2015-03-14}} 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.[http://philosophy.utoronto.ca/events/graduate-conference-philipp-pettit-princeton-keynote-speaker] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920140315/http://philosophy.utoronto.ca/events/graduate-conference-philipp-pettit-princeton-keynote-speaker|date=20 September 2011}}

He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009,{{Cite web | url=https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/02/44G04/index.xml | title=Five named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences}} and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2013.{{cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=24674 |title=British Academy | Elections to the Fellowship – British Academy |access-date=2015-08-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227123405/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=24674 |archive-date=27 February 2015 }} He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow.{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/16844-philip-pettit |title=Philip Pettit – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |publisher=Gf.org |access-date=2015-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129022314/http://www.gf.org/fellows/16844-philip-pettit |archive-date=29 November 2014 }}

Philosophical work

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/tiempo.pdf |title=El maestro Pettit examina al alumno Zapatero |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=2015-03-14}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.tampereclub.org/Marti_Pettit_New%20Statesman.pdf |title=The reading list |publisher=Tampereclub.org |access-date=2015-03-14}}

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).{{cite web |url=http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Mind/?view=usa&ci=9780199218165 |title=Common Minds – Geoffrey Brennan; Robert Goodin; Frank Jackson; Michael Smith – Oxford University Press |publisher=Oup.com |date=2007-07-19 |access-date=2015-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019041646/http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Philosophy/Mind/?view=usa&ci=9780199218165 |archive-date=19 October 2012 }}

Affiliations and honours

Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1987){{cite web |title=Fellos List – ASSA |url=http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows-list/ |access-date=23 January 2018 |publisher=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia}}
Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1988){{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Philip Pettit |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=572 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009){{Cite web | url=https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S24/02/44G04/index.xml | title=Five named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences}}
Honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy (2010)https://www.ria.ie/news-(1)/royal-irish-academy-honours-top-academics.aspx{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2013){{cite web |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=24674 |title=British Academy | Elections to the Fellowship – British Academy |access-date=2015-08-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227123405/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/index.cfm?member=24674 |archive-date=27 February 2015 }}
Member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS[http://www.fundacionideas.es/en/press_room/recent_news/2899 Fundacion IDEAS website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115054145/http://www.fundacionideas.es/en/press_room/recent_news/2899 |date=15 November 2011 }}, fundacionideas.es; accessed 13 March 2015. {{in lang|es}}
Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours (Australia){{cite web|title=PETTIT, Philip Noel|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1769666|website=Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet|access-date=1 March 2018}}

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 BraithwaiteSee [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3053994 "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.
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){{cite journal|doi=10.1086/598852|title=Book Review: Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics by Philip Pettit|year=2009|last1=Lloyd|first1=S. A.|author-link=Sharon Lloyd|journal=Ethics|volume=119|issue=3|pages=590–594|s2cid=157398503}}
"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 =

{{Citation | last = Pettit | first = Philip | contribution = The common good | editor-last1 = Dowding | editor-first1 = Keith | editor-last2 = Pateman | editor-first2 = Carole | editor-last3 = Goodin | editor-first3 = Robert E. | editor-link1 = Keith Dowding | editor-link2 = Carole Pateman | title = Justice and democracy: essays for Brian Barry | pages = 25–39 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780521836951 | postscript = .}}
{{Citation | last = Pettit | first = Philip | contribution = Freedom in the spirit of Sen | editor-last = Morris | editor-first = Christopher | title = Amartya Sen | pages = 91–114 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780521618069 }}

References

External links

[https://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit Profile: Philip Pettit], princeton.edu; accessed 13 March 2015.
[http://www.booksandideas.net/Republican-Reflections-on-the-15-M.html Pettit: Republican reflections on the 15-M movement], in [http://www.booksandideas.net Books and Ideas]; accessed 13 March 2015.
[https://www.academia.edu/3725207/Eye_to_Eye._An_Interview_with_Philip_Pettit Eye to Eye: an interview with Pettit by Petri Koikkalainen and Sami Syrjämäki], academia.edu; accessed 13 March 2015.
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