Philip Pettit
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147168 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Philip Pettit |
| PRENOMES | Philip |
| SOBRENOME | Pettit |
| ASSINATURA | PETTIT P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0355-3896 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 206 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 708 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 185 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 23 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
Reply to commentators on When minds converse
This paper offers a brief overview of When minds converse followed by a characterization of each response and a consideration of some of the observations that it makes
Five elements of group agency
Group agency requires a number of people to combine in pursuit of shared goals across varied scenarios. Thus, a group or corporate agent must be organized (1) to act flexibly as its goals require, (2) with the intentional, if not always voluntary, acquiescence of members in the guidance of (3) an authorized spokesperson or (4) a constructed voice, thereby (5) becoming capable of making and honoring commitments
When Minds Converse
We are distinguished as a species by how we deliberate with one another and within ourselves about what judgments to form, what conclusions to draw, and what perceptions to trust; and about how we ought to treat our fellows, when we ought to hold ourselves or others to account, and what constitutes our identity as persons. Do these capacities come from our nature alone? Or are they skills that our nature has allowed us to master in the exercise o…
Freedom in the Well-ordered Republic
Frank Lovett provides a fine account of civic republicanism but focuses too exclusively on freedom as a property of choices. The account can be improved if room is also made, as it was by figures in the long republican tradition, for freedom as a property of persons. The well-ordered republic is a regime that enables citizens to count equally as free persons both in relation to one another and in relation to their government
Republican Liberalism
Liberals in the United States today champion distinctive policies on the interpretation and importance of civil liberties, on the need for checks and balances within a democracy, and on the case for ensuring people's social securities. But is this just a shopping list of policies? Or is it a unified package? It will assume a unified and persuasive profile if the ideal of liberty is understood in the manner of the American founders and of the long…
Covid-19 and the Politics of Fear
This book draws on case studies from across the world, including the UK, Turkey, Brazil and the US, to provide thought-provoking and practical insights into how fear and related emotions can shape politics under extraordinary and ordinary circumstances.
A Morality Fit for Humans
There are a number of assumptions made in our accepted psychology of moral decision-making that consequentialism seems to violate:: value connectionism, pluralism and dispositionalism. But consequentialism violates them only on a utilitarian or similar theory of value, not on the rival sort of theory that is sketched here
Precis of The Birth of Ethics
“The Birth of Ethics”, which is summarized here, argues that creatures like us who lacked prescriptive concepts of a kind with desirability and responsibility would be robustly likely to develop practices of mutual commitment that would prompt the evolution of such concepts, giving them access to corresponding properties. That development and evolution would be explicable without reliance on prescriptive concepts, supporting a form of naturalisti…
Reply to Critics of The Birth of Ethics
The critiques of The Birth of Ethics (henceforth BE) that my co-symposiasts have provided are of the very highest quality and I have benefitted enormously from thinking about them and considering h
Liberté, justice et domination
Moral Functionalism
Sometimes we go from information couched in nonmoral terms to verdicts couched in moral terms. Sometimes we move back and forth between characterizations couched in moral terms. Sometimes our opinions about how things are, expressed in moral terms, lead us to action. Moral functionalism treats this tripartite structure of input clauses, internal role clauses, and output clauses as the key to understanding moral language. This chapter explains how…
On Three Dogmas of Normativity
Ruth Chang argues against three dogmas of normativity. Her argument, as least about the first two, is defensible, but defensible on a naturalistic account of normativity that she may not find congenial
The State
Why the state is the elephant in the room of political theory, too long ignored, and how to put this right The future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Or is the state just not up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit examines the nature of t…
State
Democracy, Electoral and Contestatory
I have argued elsewhere that the ideal of democratization—the ideal of bringing government under the control of the gov erned—has two dimensions.1 It represents both the familiar ideal of giving people electoral control over government and the usu ally unarticulated ideal of giving them contestatory control as well: giving them the sort of control that comes from the ability to contest government decisions effectively. This essay approaches the t…
A Dialogue on Republicanism
Popular sovereignty and constitutional democracy
In recent times, the idea of popular sovereignty has figured prominently in the rhetoric of neo-populist thinkers and activists who argue that legal and political authority must be concentrated in one single body or individual elected by the people to act in its name. The thesis of this article is that, while the notion of popular sovereignty may seem to offer some support to the neo-populist image of democracy, it serves more persuasively to sup…
Statehood and Justice
Lockdown, breakdown and trust
My Three Selves
Having a self means being able think of myself under a certain profile that that is me: that is who I am, that is how I am. But if I raise the question as to who or how I am, there are three salient profiles in which I can cast myself, three selves with which we can identify. I can see myself just as an agent identified over time by the linkages between my experiences, my attitudes and my actions. I can see myself as the persona that I invite oth…
The General Will, the Common Good, and a Democracy of Standards
A Theory of Freedom
Introduction . 1. Conceptualizing Freedom. 2. Freedom as Rational Control. 3. Freedom as Volitional Control. 4. Freedom as Discursive Control. 5. Freedom and Collectivization. 6. Freedom and Politicization. 7. Freedom and Democratization. 8. Conclusion. References
Just Freedom
In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for social and democratic progress. Whereas many thinkers define freedom as the absence of interference-we are left alone to do as we please-Pettit demands that in their basic life choices f…
Contemporary political philosophy
Contemporary political philosophy: an anthology , Contemporary political philosophy: an anthology , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
The good polity
Preface 1. The Normative Analysis of the State: Some Preliminaries Alan Hamlin and Philip Pettit Part I - Democracy 2. Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy Joshua Cohen 3. The Limits of Democracy Albert Weale 4. Politics with Romance: Towards a Theory of Democratic Socialism Geoffrey Brennan Part II - Contract and Compliance 5. Maximizing Social Welfare: Is it the Government's Business? Robert Sugden 6. Liberty, Contract and the State Alan Haml…
The Cunning of Trust
Neorepublicanism
Neorepublicanism may be defined as the attempt by current political scientists, philosophers, historians, lawyers, and others to draw on a classical republican tradition in the development of an attractive public philosophy intended for contemporary purposes. Three main ideas have been especially prominent in the neorepublican literature. First and most important is the conception of a free person as one who does not live under the arbitrary will…
Keeping Republican Freedom Simple
Freedom in the market
The market is traditionally hailed as the very exemplar of a system under which people enjoy freedom, in particular the negative sort of freedom associated with liberal and libertarian thought: freedom as noninterference. But how does the market appear from the perspective of a rival conception of freedom (freedom as non-domination) that is linked with the Roman and neo-Roman tradition of republicanism? The republican conception of freedom argues…
Hope and Its Place in Mind
People may have open minds on whether a life-extending drug or technology is going to be developed before their sixties and may strongly desire that development. Do they therefore hope that it occurs? Do they hope for it in the substantive sense of “pinning their hopes” on the development? No, they do not. Hoping for a prospect in that sense certainly presupposes having an open mind on whether it will occur and having a desire for its occur-rence…
Unveiling the Vote
The case for secrecy in voting depends on the assumption that voters reliably vote for the political outcomes they want to prevail. No such assumption is valid. Accordingly, voting procedures should be designed to provide maximal incentive for voters to vote responsibly. Secret voting fails this test because citizens are protected from public scrutiny. Under open voting, citizens are publicly answerable for their electoral choices and will be enc…
On the People’s Terms
According to republican political theory, people’s freedom as persons requires that they be publicly protected against subjection or domination in the exercise of basic liberties. But there is no public protection without a coercive state and that raises a problem since, by all accounts, coercion takes away from the freedom of the coerced. In addressing this problem, Philip Pettit argues that state coercion does not involve subjection or dominati…
Freedom and Probability
The Determinacy of Republican Policy
The Common Mind
This book is in three sections, with two chapters in each. It begins with questions of psychology: questions to do with what it means to be an intentional agent and, in particular, what it means to be an agent with the capacity for thought. Having sketched an overall view of the intentional, thinking agent, it then goes on to explore the difference that social life makes to the mentality of such agents; in effect, it outlines a social ontology. A…
Functional Explanation and Virtual Selection
Invoking its social function can explain why we find a certain functional trait or institution only if we can identify a mechanism whereby the playing of the function connects with the explanandum. That is the main claim in the missing-mechanism critique of functionalism. Is it correct? Yes, if functional explanation is meant to make sense of the actual presence of the trait or institution. No, if it is meant to make sense of why the trait or ins…
Aggregating Sets of Judgments
A Republican Law of Peoples
Assuming that states will remain a permanent feature of our world, what is the ideal that we should hold out for the international order? An attractive proposal is that those peoples that are already organized under non-dominating, representative states should pursue a twin goal: first, arrange things so that they each enjoy the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination in relation to one another and to other multi-national and international …
Joint Actions and Group Agents
Joint action and group agency have emerged as focuses of attention in recent social theory and philosophy but they have rarely been connected with one another. The argument of this article is that whereas joint action involves people acting together to achieve any sort of result, group agency requires them to act together for the achievement of one result in particular: the construction of a centre of attitude and agency that satisfies the usual …
Preserving Republican Freedom
Three Conceptions of Democratic Control
Rawls’s political ontology
The background thesis is that an implicit ontology of the people and the relation between the people and the state often shapes how we think in normative terms about politics. This article attempts to defend that thesis in relation to Rawls. The argument is that the rejection of an image of the people as a group agent connects with his objection to utilitarianism and the rejection of an image of the people as a mere aggregate connects with his ob…
Three Methods of Ethics
Liberalism and republicanism
Republicanism and liberalism are depicted here, under some ideal‐typing of the traditions, as philosophies of liberty — negative liberty — that take opposite sides on three broad issues: 1) whether the law is necessarily a partial assault on people's liberty — an assault that may be for the good overall — or something that is constitutive, at least in part, of whatever liberty citizens enjoy; 2) whether or not citizens and politicians can and sho…
Moral Functionalism and Moral Motivation
Frank Jackson, Philip Pettit; Moral Functionalism and Moral Motivation, The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 178, 1 January 1995, Pages 20–40, htt
Backgrounding Desire
Causation in the Philosophy of Mind
Causation has come to play an increasingly important role in the philosophy of mind, reaching its apotheosis in the doctrine that to be a mental state of kind K is to fill the causal role definitive of that kind of mental state: the typology of mental states is a typology of causal roles. However, ironically, there is, from this very functionalist perspective, a problem about how to understand the causal role of mental properties, those propertie…
Defining and Defending Social Holism
This paper offers a definition of social holism that makes the doctrine non-trivial but possibly true. According to that definition, the social holist maintains that people depend non-causally on interaction with one another for possession of the capacity to think; the thesis is meant to be a contingent truth but one, like physicalism, that is plausible in the light of some a priori argument and some plausible empirical assumptions. The paper als…
Hands invisible and intangible
Representation, Responsive and Indicative
Political representation may be responsive or indicative in character. In the responsive variety, the representer adopts a certain profile as a causal response to the mindset — the wishes, or interests, or whatever — of the represented. In the indicative, the fact that the representer adopts a certain profile indicates, as a matter of evidence, that the represented are of a corresponding mindset; indeed, in the typical case, the representer is ch…
The Globalized Republican Ideal
The concept of freedom as non-domination that is associated with neo-republican theory provides a guiding ideal in the global, not just the domestic arena, and does so even on the assumption that there will continue to be many distinct states. It argues for a world in which states do not dominate members of their own people and, considered as a corporate body, no people is dominated by other agencies: not by other states and not, for example, by …
Wittgenstein and the case for Structuralism
Peer-reviewed
Explanation in the Behavioural Sciences
A theory of justice?
The concept of structuralism
The Concept of Structuralism
The Concept of Structuralism
Judging Justice. An Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Judging Justice. An Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy. By Philip Pettit. ( R.K.P., 1980. Pp. 193. Price £8.50) T. D. Campbell T. D. Campbell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 125, October 1981, Pages 377–378, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219413 Published: 01 October 1981
Judging Justice
The demarcation of metaphor
Semantics and Social Science
The prisoner's dilemma and social theory
(1985). The prisoner's dilemma and social theory: An overview of some issues. Politics: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-11
X—Social Holism and Moral Theory
The Possibility of Special Duties
In common-sense morality, certain special obligations loom large. These are duties which are laid upon agents, be they individuals or groups, in virtue of their distinctive identities, relationships or histories: because of who they are, how they are linked to others or what they have done in the past. The particularistic basis of these obligations means that no one but the agent in question is engaged by such a duty. It is that agent's alone. Th…
Preserving the prisoner's dilemma
Slote on Consequentialism
Journal Article Slote on Consequentialism Get access Michael Slote, Common Sense Morality and Consequentialism. ( Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. Pp. ix + 157. Price £14.95) Philip Pettit Philip Pettit Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 144, July 1986, Pages 399–412, https://doi.org/10.2307/222019…
Towards a Social Democratic Theory of the State
The paper attempts two tasks. The first is to provide a characterization of the social democratic approach which sets it in contrast to liberal democratic theories. This is pursued by contrasting the different interpretations of the ideal of equal respect which are associated with the two approaches. The second task is to establish that the social democratic approach is, if not clearly superior, at least worth considering further. This task is pu…
The prisoner's dilemma is an unexploitable Newcomb problem
The Consequentialist Can Recognise Rights
Journal Article The Consequentialist can Recognise Rights Get access Philip Pettit Philip Pettit Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University Canberra Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 150, January 1988, Pages 42–55, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220266 Published: 01 January 1988
Determinism with deliberation
Peer-reviewed
Theory and Understanding
Backgrounding Desire
Causation in the Philosophy of Mind
Causation has come to play an increasingly important role in the philosophy of mind, reaching its apotheosis in the doctrine that to be a mental state of kind K is to fill the causal role definitive of that kind of mental state: the typology of mental states is a typology of causal roles. However, ironically, there is, from this very functionalist perspective, a problem about how to understand the causal role of mental properties, those propertie…
Unveiling the Vote
The case for secrecy in voting depends on the assumption that voters reliably vote for the political outcomes they want to prevail. No such assumption is valid. Accordingly, voting procedures should be designed to provide maximal incentive for voters to vote responsibly. Secret voting fails this test because citizens are protected from public scrutiny. Under open voting, citizens are publicly answerable for their electoral choices and will be enc…
L’événement en perspective
Qu'est-ce qu'un événement ? La question peut paraître incongrue, tant la notion commune d'événement va de soi. Elle ne cesse pourtant de se poser aux philosophes comme aux praticiens des sciences sociales. Elle soulève aujourd'hui des problèmes plus radicaux, peut-être, que ne le faisait, voici une génération, la réflexion sur la place respective des événements et des structures dans l'explication historique. Ces problèmes concernent le concept m…
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