Philip Pettit

Philip Noel Pettit ( born 1945 in Ballygar, Ireland) is an Irish philosopher and political scientist.

Life and work

Pettit was born in Ballygar, County Galway. He graduated from the Garbally College and then studied at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and Queen's University in Belfast. For a long time he taught as Professor ( Professorial Fellow ) of Sociology and Political Science at the Research School of Social Sciences, is a member of the Australian National University. Among the many honors he learned society, includes an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland. At the time (2010/2011), he is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences at Stanford University.

Pettit is known for its variant of republicanism. His book, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government served as the theoretical foundation for political reform in Spain by the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Pettit described - together with José Luis Marti - his relationship with Zapatero in A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero 's Spain.

Pettit believes that thinking about philosophical problems in a particular field often leads to usable solutions to problems in all other areas. So are points of view that he represents in the field of philosophy of mind, conducive to his approaches to solving problems in metaphysics the question of free will and of problems of social philosophy; latter, in turn, help him to find solutions to problems of moral philosophy and political philosophy.

Pettit is part of the staff of the scientific adviser of the Fundacion IDEAS, the think tank of the Socialist Party of Spain.

Awards

  • 2005: Albertus Magnus Chair

Writings

  • Judging justice: an introduction to contemporary political philosophy (1980 )
  • With Chandran Kukathas, Rawls ' A Theory of Justice ' and Its Critics, 1990
  • The Common Mind; an essay on psychology, society and politics, 1993
  • With John Braithwaite, Not Just Deserts. A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice ISBN 9780198240563 (see Republican Criminology and Victim Advocacy: Comment, see also the review in Law and Society Review, Volume 28, No. 4 (1994 ), pp. 765-776. ).
  • Republicanism: a theory of freedom and government, 1997
  • Marcia Baron and Michael Slote, Three Methods of Ethics: a debate, 1997
  • A Theory of Freedom: from psychology to the politics of agency, 2001
  • Rules, Reasons and Norms: selected essays, 2002
  • With Geoffrey Brennan, The Economy of Esteem: an essay on civil and political society, 2004
  • Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics, 2007
  • With José Luis Martí, A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero 's Spain, 2010
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