Background
Pettit, Philip Noel was born on December 20, 1945 in Ballinasloe, Ireland. Son of Michael Antony and Bridget Christina (Molony) Pettit. arrived in Australia, 1983.
(Originally published in 1980, this book examines the majo...)
Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding, humanism versus scientism, individualism versus collectivism, and the shaping of theory by evaluative commitment. Arguing for a cross-cultural conception of human beings, the authors defend humanism and individualism, and reject the notion that social inquiry is necessarily vitiated by an adherence to values.
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(Introducing a radical shift in the research agenda of cri...)
Introducing a radical shift in the research agenda of criminology, Braithwaite and Pettit here attack currently fashionable retributivist theories of punishment, arguing that the criminal justice system is so integrated that sentencing policy has to be considered in the system-wide context. They offer a comprehensive theory of criminal justice which points the way to practical intervention in the real world of incremental reform, and argue for a republican criminal justice system where the maximizing of individual dominion is set as the goal for progressive policy change.
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(This is the first full-length presentation of a republica...)
This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. The latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford Political Theory series, Pettit's eloquent and compelling account opens with an examination of the traditional republican conception of freedom as non-domination, contrasting this with established negative and positive views of liberty. The first part of the book traces the rise and decline of this conception, displays its many attractions, and makes a case for why it should still be regarded as a central political ideal. The second part of the book looks at what the implementation of the ideal would require with regard to substantive policy-making, constitutional and democratic design, regulatory control and the relation between state and civil society. Prominent in this account is a novel concept of democracy, under which government is exposed to systematic contestation, and a vision of state-societal relations founded upon civility and trust. Pettit's powerful and insightful new work offers not only a unified, theoretical overview of the many strands of republican ideas, but also a new and sophisticated perspective on studies in related fields including the history of ideas, jurisprudence, and criminology.
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Este libro supone la primera vez en que se presenta, de una manera completa y global, una alternativa a las teorías liberales y comunitaristas que han dominado la filosofía política de los últimos años. Y Philip Pettit lo hace mediante una exposición, tan elocuente como convincente, que a su vez se abre con una exploración de la concepción republicana tradicional de la libertad como no-dominación, contrastándola con las visiones negativa y positiva de la libertad. La primera parte esboza el ascenso y declive de dicha concepción, muestra sus ventajas y defiende la necesidad de seguir considerándola como un ideal político esencial. La segunda atiende las implicaciones que podría tener el ideal en cuestión para la toma de decisiones públicas, para el diseño constitucional y democrático, para el control regulativo del Estado y para la relación entre este último y la sociedad civil. Especialmente notables resultan, en este sentido, tanto el nuevo concepto de democracia aquí expuesto, según el cual el Estado debe exponer continuamente sus decisiones al debate ciudadano, como la consiguiente visión de las relaciones entre el Estado y una sociedad civil basada en las virtudes cívicas y la confianza mutua. Una obra robusta e incisiva, pues, que no sólo ofrece una panorámica global de las diversas fuentes intelectuales del republicanismo, sino que también proporciona una perspectiva nueva sobre campos de investigación afines, como la historia de las ideas, la teoría del derecho y la criminología. Philip Pettit es profesor de Teoría Social y Política en la Research School of Social Sciences de la Australian National University, en Canberra, y de Filosofía en la Columbia University de Nueva York. Entre sus libros figuran The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics (1993) y Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice (1990, con John Braithwaite).
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(During the past decade ethical theory has been in a livel...)
During the past decade ethical theory has been in a lively state of development, and three basic approaches to ethics - Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics - have assumed positions of particular prominence. Written in the form of a debate, this volume presents a clear survey and assessment of the main arguments, both for and against each of these three central approaches to ethics. In doing so, it represents the first volume to bring these forms of ethical theory into a critical relationship, engaging current philosophical debate on the one hand in terms clear enough for undergraduates on the other.It is an ideal basis for course use in ethics and moral philosophy.
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(This groundbreaking book by two distinguished scholars fr...)
This groundbreaking book by two distinguished scholars from different disciplines begins by outlining the psychology of esteem and the way the working of that psychology can give rise to an economy. It then shows how a variety of social patterns that are otherwise anomalous come to make a lot of sense within an economics of esteem. And it looks, finally, at the ways in which the economy of esteem may be reshaped so as to make for an improvement - by reference to received criteria - in overall social outcomes. While making connections with older patterns of social theorising, it offers a novel orientation for contemporary thought about how society works and how it may be made to work. It puts the economy of esteem firmly on the agenda of economic and social science and of moral and political theory.
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(What makes human beings intentional and thinking subjects...)
What makes human beings intentional and thinking subjects? How does their intentionality and thought connect with their social nature and their communal experience? How do the answers to these questions shape the assumptions which it is legitimate to make in social explanation and political evaluation? These are the broad-ranging issues which Pettit addresses in this novel study. The Common Mind argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, natural and artificial. It holds by the holistic view that human thought requires communal resources while denying that this social connection compromises the autonomy of individuals. And, in developing the significance of this view of social subjects--this holistic individualism--it outlines a novel framework for social and political theory. Within this framework, social theory is allowed to follow any of a number of paths: space is found for intentional interpretation and decision-theoretic reconstruction, for structural explanation and rational choice derivation. But political theory is treated less ecumenically. The framework raises serious questions about contractarian and atomistic modes of thought and it points the way to a republican rethinking of liberal commitments.
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( Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much...)
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy. Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented the invention of language thesis--the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. The invention, in Hobbes's story, is a double-edged sword. It enables human beings to reason, commit themselves as persons, and incorporate in groups. But it also allows them to agonize about the future and about their standing relative to one another; it takes them out of the Eden of animal silence and into a life of inescapable conflict--the state of nature. Still, if language leads into this wasteland, according to Hobbes, it can also lead out. It can enable people to establish a commonwealth where the words of law and morality have a common, enforceable sense, and where people can invoke the sanctions of an absolute sovereign to give their words to one another in credible commitment and contract. Written by one of today's leading philosophers, Made with Words is both an original reinterpretation and a clear and lively introduction to Hobbes's thought.
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(Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith have been...)
Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith have been at the forefront of philosophy in Australia for much of the last two decades, and their collaborative work has had widespread influence throughout the world. Mind, Morality, and Explanation collects the best of that work in a single volume, showcasing their seminal contributions to philosophical psychology, the theory of psychological and social explanation, moral theory, and moral psychology.
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( This book examines an unlikely development in modern po...)
This book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became Spain's opposition leader in 2000, he pledged that if his socialist party won power he would govern Spain in accordance with the principles laid out in Philip Pettit's 1997 book Republicanism, which presented, as an alternative to liberalism and communitarianism, a theory of freedom and government based on the idea of nondomination. When Zapatero was elected President in 2004, he invited Pettit to Spain to give a major speech about his ideas. Zapatero also invited Pettit to monitor Spanish politics and deliver a kind of report card before the next election. Pettit did so, returning to Spain in 2007 to make a presentation in which he gave Zapatero's government a qualified thumbs-up for promoting republican ideals. In this book, Pettit and José Luis Martí provide the historical background to these unusual events, explain the principles of civic republicanism in accessible terms, present Pettit's report and his response to some of its critics, and include an extensive interview with Zapatero himself. In addition, the authors discuss what is required of a political philosophy if it is to play the sort of public role that civic republicanism has been playing in Spain. An important account of a rare and remarkable encounter between contemporary political philosophy and real-world politics, this is also a significant work of political philosophy in its own right.
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(Pettit presents a selection of essays touching upon metap...)
Pettit presents a selection of essays touching upon metaphysics, philosophical psychology, and the theory of rational regulation. The first part of the book discusses the rule-following character of thought. The second considers how choice can be responsive to different sorts of factors, while still being under the control of thought. The third examines the implications of this view of choice and rationality for the normative regulation of social behavior.
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(In this short yet ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a ...)
In this short yet ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a single, unified, and overarching theory of freedom. A puzzling topic, freedom extends from the individual and the metaphysical (i.e. free will) to the social and the political, yet a theory connecting these two realms has yet to be devised. In an elegant, accessible manner, Pettit presents a survey of available theories of freedom, then develops his own--one that manages to straddle the personal and political spheres. The view he develops--which includes the seemingly paradoxical notion that we are free to the extent that we are capable of being held responsible--will make this pioneering book highly important to a wide range of philosophers.
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Pettit, Philip Noel was born on December 20, 1945 in Ballinasloe, Ireland. Son of Michael Antony and Bridget Christina (Molony) Pettit. arrived in Australia, 1983.
Bachelor in Philosophy, National University Ireland, Dublin, 1966. Master of Arts in Philosophy, National University Ireland, Dublin, 1967. Doctor of Letters (honorary), National University Ireland, Dublin, 2000.
Doctor of Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Crete, 2005. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Montreal, 2006.
D.Litt (honorary), Queen's University, Belfast, 2007. DPh, University Lund, 2008.
Lecturer Queen's University, 1967-1968, University College, Dublin, 1968-1972, 1975-1977. Research fellow University Cambridge, England, 1972-1975. Professor philosophy University Bradford, England, 1977-1983.
Professional fellow Institute Advanced Studies Australian National University, Canberra, 1983-1988, professor, 1989—2002. W. N. Cromwell professor politics Princeton University, New Jersey, since 2002, Library Science Rockefeller professor, since 2005. Visiting professor Columbia University, New York, 1997-2000.
(What makes human beings intentional and thinking subjects...)
(Introducing a radical shift in the research agenda of cri...)
(Originally published in 1980, this book examines the majo...)
(Originally published in 1980, this book examines the majo...)
(During the past decade ethical theory has been in a livel...)
(Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit, and Michael Smith have been...)
(Este libro supone la primera vez en que se presenta, de u...)
(This groundbreaking book by two distinguished scholars fr...)
( Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much...)
(This is the first full-length presentation of a republica...)
(This is the first full-length presentation of a republica...)
( This book examines an unlikely development in modern po...)
(Pettit presents a selection of essays touching upon metap...)
(In this short yet ambitious work, Philip Pettit offers a ...)
(A famous investigation of justice and a critical appraisa...)
Fellow Academy Social Sciences Australia., Australian Academy Humanities, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Royal Irish Academy.
Son of Michael Antony and Bridget Christina (Molony) P.;m. Victoria McGeer 2009. Children from previous marriage to E.McNally children: Rory Conor, Owen Patrick.