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A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy
A novel, republican theory of the point of democracy, providing a model of the institutions that republican democracy would require....
An esteemed philosopher offers a vision for the central role of one of our most cherished—and controversial—ideas. In this rigorous distillation o...
"In this work, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking to offers major new accounts of the foundations of t...
From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency
This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject. Pettit d...
A Theory of Freedom and Government
This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philoso...
An Essay on Psychology, Society, and Politics
This work argues for an original way of marking off thinking subjects, in particular human beings, from other intentional systems, both natural and ar...
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Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics
Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood,...
Selected Essays
The essays selected here come in three packages. The first set of essays is concerned with the rule-following, response-dependent character of thought...
Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain
The story of a Princeton professor's role as the unofficial philosophical adviser to the Spanish government This book examines an unlikely development...
The Possibility, Design, and Status of Corporate Agents
Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This...
This well-respected textbook, offering a traditional approach to equity and trusts, has been a trusted resource for academics and students for nearly ...
This well-established and respected textbook has been relied upon by students and academic scholars for the last 40 years. Praised for the clarity of ...
A Debate
During the past decade ethical theory has been in a lively state of development, and three basic approaches to ethics - Kantian ethics, consequentiali...
An Essay on Civil and Political Society
The authors contend that people care about others' opinions of them and that the actions they take to raise the esteem they enjoy produce social patte...
Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect
Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not onl...
Selected Collaborations
A cohesive vision of the mind and its place in the realms of causation and morality ... Mind, Morality, and Explanation is an outstanding anthology pr...
A Theory of Justice and Its Critics
Reason and Value collects fifteen brand-new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz. The subtlet...
A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice
Arguing for a radical shift in the research agenda of criminology, this monograph offers a comprehensive theory of criminal justice which draws on a p...
A Critical Analysis
Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality
Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to co...
An Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy
Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural und...
Essay on Psychology, Society and Politics
A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul
When Minds Converse argues that we do not speak because our human minds are special; our minds are special because we can speak. The book is original ...
To know the nature of any phenomenon or practice, it is often a good idea to learn about how it might have emerged or might have been constructed. The...