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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy
  • 2010 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Philip Pettit is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, including philosophy, political science, and cognitive neuroscience. Pettit's scholarly contributions largely focus on topics such as political philosophy and ethics, philosophical ethics and theory, epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics, as well as political theory and influence.

The scientist has an extensive record of publications appearing in notable venues. Some of the most frequent publication outlets include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Inquiry
  • Society
  • University of Toronto Law Journal
  • Global Discourse

Recent papers authored by Philip Pettit cover a range of themes in political and social philosophy. Key publications within the last few years include:

  • "Five elements of group agency" (2023), published in Inquiry
  • "Statehood and Justice" (2022), published in Society
  • "Lockdown, breakdown and trust: a reply to Paul Faulkner" (2021), published in Global Discourse
  • "Popular sovereignty and constitutional democracy" (2021), published in University of Toronto Law Journal
  • "A hard choice for Tomasello" (2020), published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Pettit's collaborative work includes coauthorship with several scholars across related disciplines. Frequent coauthors include Frank Jackson, Jun-Hyeok Kwak, H. Schmid, Frank Hindriks, and Heikki Ikäheimo.

The scientist has published books through Princeton University Press. Two editions of the book titled The State were released in 2022 and 2023.

Pettit's research engages deeply with several subfields, such as:

  • Philosophy
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science

The main topics around which Pettit's work revolves include:

  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Political Theory and Influence
  • Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
  • Free Will and Agency

Recognition of Pettit's academic contributions includes election as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010, designation as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2010, and election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government

    Philip Pettit

  • On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy

    Philip Pettit

  • Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice.

    Nicola Lacey;John Braithwaite;Philip Pettit

  • On the People's Terms

    Unknown

  • A Theory of Freedom: From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency

    Philip Pettit

  • The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society, and Politics

    Philip Pettit

  • The theory of institutional design

    Robert E. Goodin

  • Aggregating sets of judgments: An impossibility result

    Christian List;Philip Pettit

  • Rawls: A Theory of Justice and Its Critics

    Chandran Kukathas;Philip Pettit

  • Republicanism

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  • Groups with minds of their own

    Philip Pettit

  • The Cunning of Trust

    Philip Pettit

  • Republicanismo: una teoría sobre la libertad y el gobierno

    Philip Pettit

  • Deliberative Democracy and the Discursive Dilemma

    Philip Pettit

  • Freedom as Antipower

    Philip Pettit

  • Responsibility Incorporated*

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  • A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

    Robert E. Goodin;Philip Pettit;Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge

  • MORAL FUNCTIONALISM AND MORAL MOTIVATION

    Frank Jackson;Philip Pettit

  • Realism and response-dependence

    Philip Pettit

  • The Economy of Esteem

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  • The concept of structuralism: A critical analysis

    Philip Pettit

  • Joint Actions and Group Agents

    Philip Pettit;David Schweikard

  • Functionalism and broad content

    Frank Jackson;Philip Pettit

  • Aggregating sets of judgments : two impossibility results compared

    Christian List;Philip Pettit

  • The Common Mind: An Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics

    Alan Thomas;Philip Pettit

  • Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World

    Philip Pettit

  • Republican Freedom and Contestatory Democratization

    Philip Pettit

  • Keeping Republican Freedom Simple: On a Difference with Quentin Skinner

    Philip Pettit

  • Neorepublicanism: A Normative and Institutional Research Program

    Frank Lovett;Philip Pettit;Philip Pettit

  • Democracy, Electoral and Contestatory

    Philip Pettit

  • The good polity : normative analysis of the state

    Alan P. Hamlin;Philip Pettit

  • Capability and freedom: a defence of Sen

    Philip Pettit

  • Contemporary political philosophy : an anthology

    Robert E. Goodin;Philip Pettit

  • Freedom in the market

    Philip Pettit

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Brennan
Geoffrey Brennan Australian National University
Christian List
Christian List London School of Economics and Political Science
Frank Jackson
Frank Jackson Australian National University
John Braithwaite
John Braithwaite Australian National University
Robert E. Goodin
Robert E. Goodin Australian National University
Graham Priest
Graham Priest The Graduate Center, CUNY
Peter Gärdenfors
Peter Gärdenfors Lund University
Paul Craig
Paul Craig University of Oxford
John McDowell
John McDowell University of Pittsburgh
Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner Queen Mary University of London

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