Philip Pettit is Irish by background and taught in Ireland, England and Australia before moving to a full-time position in Politics and Human Values at Princeton in 2002. Since 2012, he has held a joint appointment at the Australian National University and divides his time between the two campuses; he relies on email and Skype for keeping in touch with his advisees. He is a philosopher whose main interests include political theory and he is an active member of the community in Politics.
Selected Publications
1997. Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government. Oxford University Press
2004. The Economy of Esteem (with G.Brennan). Oxford University Press
2008. Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind and Politics. Princeton University Press
2010. A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapater's Spain (with J.Marti). Princeton University Press
2011. Group Agency: The Possibility, Design and Status of Corporate Agents (with C.List). Oxford University Press
2012. On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy. Cambridge University Press
2014. Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World. W.W. Norton & Company
2018. The Birth of Ethics: A Reconstruction of the Role and Nature of Morality (reply by M.Tomasello) Oxford University Press
Selected Honors and Awards
Companion of the Order of Australia
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy
Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences in Australia
Honorary degrees from National University of Ireland, Universities of Crete, Montreal and Athens, Lund University and Queen's University, Belfast