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|Brief=is the L. San Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.|Summary=is L.San Irish philosopher and political theorist. He is Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he has taught political theory and philosophy since 2002, and for a period that began in 2012-13 holds a joint position as also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2017. Born and raised in Ireland, he was a lecturer in University College, Dublin, a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bradford, before moving in 1983 to the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University; there he held a professorial position jointly in Social and Political Theory and Philosophy until 2002. He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010 and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2013; he has long been a fellow of the Australian academies in Humanities and Social Sciences. He holds honorary professorships in Philosophy at Sydney University and Queen's University, Belfast and has been awarded honorary degrees by the National University of Ireland (Dublin), the University of Crete, Lund University, Universite de Montreal, Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Athens. Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit appeared from OUP in 2007, edited by Geoffrey Brennan, R.E.Goodin, Frank Jackson and Michael Smith.

He works Pettit defends a version of civic republicanism in moral and political theory and on background issues in the philosophy of mind and metaphysics. His recent single-authored books include The Common Mind (OUP 1996), book Republicanism (OUP 1997), : A Theory of Freedom (OUP 2001), Rules, Reasons and Norms (OUP 2002), Penser en Societe (PUF, Paris 2004), Examen a Zapatero (Temas de Hoy, Madrid 2008), Made with Words: Hobbes on Mind, Society and Politics (PUP 2008); On Government provided the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy (CUP 2012); Just Freedom: A Moral Compass underlying justification for a Complex World (W.Wpolitical reforms in Spain under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.Norton 2014) and The Robust Demands of the Good: Ethics [7] Pettit detailed his relationship with Attachment, Virtue and Respect (OUP 2015). His recent co-authored books include The Economy of Esteem (OUP 2004), with Geoffrey Brennan; Mind, Morality and Explanation (OUP 2004), a selection of papers with Frank Jackson and Michael Smith; Zapatero in his A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain (PUP 2010), co-authored with Jose Marti; and Group Agency: The Possibility, Design and Status José Luis Martí.[8] Pettit holds that the lessons learned when thinking about problems in one area of Corporate Agents (OUP 2011), with Christian Listphilosophy often constitute ready-made solutions to problems faced in completely different areas. He gave Views he defends in philosophy of mind give rise to the Tanner lectures on Human Values at Berkeley solutions he offers to problems in April 2015metaphysics about the nature of free will, which appeared and to problems in late 2018 with OUPthe philosophy of the social sciences, New York (with commentary by Michael Tomasello) as The Birth of Ethics: A Reconstruction of and these in turn give rise to the Nature solutions he provides to problems in moral philosophy and Role of Moralitypolitical philosophy. He is presenting His corpus as a whole was the Locke lectures subject of a series of critical essays published in Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy at Oxford University in Spring 2019of Philip Pettit.