10 Facts About Philip Pettit

Philip Noel Pettit was born on 1945 and is an Irish philosopher and political theorist.

Philip Pettit is the Laurance Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.

Philip Pettit has been a lecturer at University College Dublin, a research fellow at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and professor at the University of Bradford.

Philip Pettit was for many years professorial fellow in social and political theory at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University before becoming a visiting professor of philosophy at Columbia University for five years, then moving to Princeton.

Philip Pettit is the recipient of numerous honours, including an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland.

Philip Pettit was keynote speaker at Graduate Conference, University of Toronto.

Philip Pettit was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2013.

Philip Pettit defends a version of civic republicanism in political philosophy.

Philip Pettit detailed his relationship with Zapatero in his A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain, co-authored with Jose Luis Marti.

Philip Pettit holds that the lessons learned when thinking about problems in one area of philosophy often constitute ready-made solutions to problems faced in completely different areas.