Philip Pettit

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Philip Noel Pettit (born 1945) is an Irish philosopher and political theorist.

Born in Ballygar, County Galway, he was educated at Garbally College, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Queen's University, Belfast.

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 is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University.

Pettit is known for defending a version of Republicanism in political philosophy and for arguing for a tight connection between issues in cognitive science, philosophy of social science, free will, and political philosophy.

Philip Pettit specifically develops the idea of how laws should be based on non domination, as a route to liberty.

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 pyschology 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)

External links

• Petitt's homepage at Princeton University

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