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Philip N. Pettit (b. 1945–) is Laurence S. Rockefeller university professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and distinguished professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy, fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and corresponding fellow of the British Academy. Pettit’s early work explores questions related to phenomenology (Pettit 1969) and structuralism (Pettit 1975), but he is now primarily associated with his analytic approach to political, social, and legal philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and metaphysics. Though these domains are systematically connected and would benefit from a joint reading, this entry will, for lack of space, deal only with his political, legal, and social philosophy.
Pettit was born to a Catholic family in...
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Pettit P (1969) On the idea of phenomenology. Scepter Books, Dublin
Pettit P (1975) The concept of structuralism: a critical analysis. Gil and MacMillan, Dublin
Pettit P (1980) Judging justice: an introduction to contemporary political philosophy. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London
Pettit P (1996a) The common mind: an essay on psychology, society and politics. Oxford University Press, New York
Pettit P (1996b) Freedom as anti-power. Ethics 106:576–604
Pettit P (1997a) Republicanism: a theory of freedom and government. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Pettit P (1997b) Republican theory and criminal punishment. Utilitas 9:59–79
Pettit P (2001) A theory of freedom: from the psychology to the politics of agency. Polity Press, Cambridge
Pettit P (2002) Rules, reasons and norms: selected essays. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Pettit P (2007) Joining the dots. In: Smith M et al (eds) Common minds: themes from the philosophy of Philip Pettit. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Pettit P (2008) Three conceptions of democratic control. Constellations 15:46–55
Pettit P (2009) Law and liberty. In: Besson S, Marti JL (eds) Legal republicanism. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp 39–59
Pettit P (2010) A republican Law of Peoples. Eur J Polit Theory 9(1):70–94
Pettit P (2012) On the people’s terms: a republican theory and model of democracy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Pettit P (2014) Just freedom: a moral compass for a complex world. W.W. Norton, New York
Pettit P, Braithwaite J (1990) Not just deserts: a republican theory of criminal justice. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Pettit P, List C (2011) Group agency: the possibility, design and status of corporate agents. Oxford University Press, Oxford
Pettit P, Marti JL (2010) A political philosophy in public life: civic republicanism in Zapatero’s Spain. Princeton University Press, Princeton
Pettit P, Baron M, Slote M (1997) Three methods of ethics: a debate. Blackwell, Oxford
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Poama, A. (2023). Pettit, Philip. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6519-1_122
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