Philip Pettit

Professor Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of 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 Distinguished 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, International Fellow of the British Academy in 2013, and Correspondant en Philosophie de l’Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Institut de France) in 2019; he has long been a fellow of the Australian academies in Humanities and Social Sciences. He 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, the University of Athens and the University of Buenos Aires. 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.