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| Born | Philip Noel Pettit 1945 (age 79–80) Ballygar, Ireland |
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| Alma mater | Maynooth College Queen's University Belfast |
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Civic republicanism |
| Institutions | Australian National University Princeton University |
| Main interests | Political philosophy,social ontology,philosophy of mind,ethics |
Philip Noel PettitAC (born 1945) is an Irishphilosopher andpolitical theorist. He is at theLaurance Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values atPrinceton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at theAustralian National University.[1]
Pettit was educated atGarbally College, theNational University of Ireland, Maynooth (BA, LPh, MA) andQueen's University Belfast (PhD).
He has been a lecturer atUniversity College Dublin, a research fellow atTrinity Hall, Cambridge, and professor at theUniversity of Bradford.[2] 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 anhonorary doctorate from theNational University of Ireland.He was keynote speaker at Graduate Conference,University of Toronto.[3]
He was elected a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009,[4] and a Corresponding Fellow of theBritish Academy in 2013.[5] He has also been aGuggenheim Fellow.[6]
Pettit defends a version ofcivic republicanism in political philosophy. His bookRepublicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government provided the underlying justification for political reforms in Spain underJosé Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.[7] Pettit detailed his relationship with Zapatero in hisA Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain, co-authored with José Luis Martí.[8]
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 inCommon Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit (Oxford University Press, 2007).[9]
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