Philip Pettit

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Philip Noel Pettit (born December 20, 1945 in Ballygar , Ireland ) is an Irish philosopher and political scientist .

life and work

Pettit was born in Ballygar, County Galway . He graduated from 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 a professor (Professorial Fellow) for sociology and political science at the Research School of Social Sciences, belonging to the Australian National University . The numerous honors he received include a. the honorary doctorate of the National University of Ireland . He is currently (2010/2011) a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences at Stanford University.

Pettit is known for his variant of Republicanism . His book Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government served as the theoretical foundation for political reforms in Spain by the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero . Pettit, together with José Luis Marti, described 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 one area often leads to useful solutions to problems in entirely different areas. Thus standpoints which he takes in the field of philosophy of mind are conducive to his approaches to solving problems in metaphysics on the question of free will and problems of social philosophy; the latter in turn help him to find solutions to problems of moral philosophy and political philosophy.

Pettit is a member of the staff of scientific advisors at Fundacion IDEAS , the think tank of the Spanish Socialist Party.

Awards

Fonts

  • 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 978-0-19-824056-3 (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
  • with 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
  • Just freedom. A moral compass for a complex world (=  Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch Wissenschaft . Volume 2206 ). 1st edition. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-29806-0 (English: Just freedom. A moral compass for a complex world .).

literature

  • Geoffrey Brennan, Robert Goodin, Frank Jackson , Michael Smith (Eds.): Common Minds. Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit. Clarendon Press, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-921816-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/
  2. ↑ https://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/tiempo.pdf Spanish, accessed on February 16, 2011
  3. ↑ http://www.tampereclub.org/Marti_Pettit_New%20Statesman.pdf
  4. ^ Members: Philip Noel Pettit. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 11, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pettit, Philip
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pettit, Philip Noel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish philosopher and political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballygar , Ireland