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Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work

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Editors:
  1. Simon Derpmann

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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  2. David P. Schweikard

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

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  • Introduces robustness as a common characteristic to central values argued in philosophical ethics
  • Is a valuable addition to the ongoing philosophical debates surrounding Pettit's work
  • Includes original work dealing with systematic issues in Pettit‘s philosophy
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Münster Lectures in Philosophy (MUELP, volume 1)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Lecture

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding Goods

      • Philip Pettit
      Pages 3-16

  3. Colloquium

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Rule-Following and A Priori Biconditionals – A Sea of Tears?

      • Amrei Bahr, Markus Seidel
      Pages 19-31

    3. Pettit’s Mixed Causal Descriptivism: Feeling Blue

      • Amrei Bahr, Bianca Hüsing, Jan G. Michel
      Pages 33-42

    4. Discovering the Properties of ‘Qualia’ in Pettit’s Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness

      • Jonas Dessouky, Tobias Peters
      Pages 43-48

    5. Playing Pong with the Mind? Pettit’s Program Model and Mental Causation

      • Kim Joris Boström, Gordon Leonhard, Lisa Steinmetz
      Pages 49-59

    6. Notes on Pettit’s Concept of Orthonomy

      • Alexa Nossek, Julia Belz
      Pages 61-69

    7. Two Problems of Value-Monistic Consequentialism in Philip Pettit’s Theory of Criminal Justice

      • Tim Grafe, Tobias Hachmann, Michael Sabuga
      Pages 71-79

    8. Indirect Consequentialism and Moral Psychology

      • Anna M. Blundell, Simon Derpmann, Konstantin Schnieder, Ricarda Geese
      Pages 81-90

    9. What Is the Foundation of Pettit’s Non-redundant Realism About Group Agents?

      • Dominik Düber, Nadine Mooren, Tim Rojek
      Pages 91-100

    10. Pluralism Across Domains

      • David P. Schweikard
      Pages 101-109

    11. Which Liberalism, Which Republicanism? Constructing Traditions of Political Thought with Philip Pettit

      • Sven Lüders, Johannes W. Müller-Salo
      Pages 111-121

    12. Focusing on the Eyeball Test: A Problematic Testing Device in Philip Pettit’s Theory of Justice

      • Frieder Bögner, Jörn Elgert, Carolyn Iselt
      Pages 123-131

  4. Reply Essay

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Self-defense on Five Fronts: A Reply to My Commentators

      • Philip Pettit
      Pages 135-164
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About this book

This volume documents the 16th Münster Lectures in Philosophy and examines five themes that are prominent in the work of philosopher and political theorist Philip Pettit. These themes are: Epistemology and Semantics, Philosophy of Mind, Consequentialism, Group Agency, and Republicanism.

The book provides insight into Pettit's work and demonstrates the central role his work plays in a number of contemporary philosophical debates. Pettit’s contributions to the philosophy of mind and action, rational choice theory, the philosophy of the social sciences, as well as metaethics, normative ethics and political philosophy are main points of reference, and have advanced ongoing and initiated new discussions. The book shows that a striking feature of Pettit's work has been the depth of his analyses and arguments regarding individual topics – ranging from rule-following to free will, from group agency to social ontology and the methodology of the social sciences, from a defenseof consequentialism to the revival of the republican tradition in the theory of democracy and to value theory, but also their systematic overall coherence.


The book contains Pettit’s lecture "Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding Goods", nine critical papers on Pettit’s philosophy, and a reply article entitled "Self-Defense on Five Fronts: A Reply to My Commentators".

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Simon Derpmann, David P. Schweikard

About the editors

Philip Pettit is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he has taught political theory and philosophy since 2002. From 2012-13 he will be spending Spring semester for each of a numbers of years in the Australian National University as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. Irish by background and training, 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. 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 holdshonorary 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, Université de Montreal and Queen's University, Belfast. 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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work

  • Editors: Simon Derpmann, David P. Schweikard

  • Series Title: Münster Lectures in Philosophy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26103-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26101-0Published: 18 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79894-3Published: 30 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26103-4Published: 11 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2367-0991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2367-1009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 164

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ethics, Political Philosophy, Epistemology

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