Professor

Philip Noel Pettit

Princeton University
Philosopher and political theorist; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
2009
PHILIP PETTIT is L.S.Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton, and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the ANU. He works mainly in moral and political philosophy, and the foundations of the social sciences. His books include Republicanism (1997), The Economy of Esteem (2004), with G.Brennan; Group Agency (2011) with C. List; On the People’s Terms (2012); Just Freedom (2014); The Robust Demands of the Good (2015); and The Birth of Ethics (2018).  Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit, ed G.Brennan, R.Goodin, F.Jackson and M.Smith, appeared from OUP in 2007.
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