Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work
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,
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Simon Derpmann David P. Schweikard Editors
Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work
Münster Lectures in Philosophy Volume 1 Series editor Department of Philosophy, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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Simon Derpmann • David P. Schweikard Editors
Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work
Editors Simon Derpmann Department of Philosophy University of Münster Münster, Germany
David P. Schweikard Department of Philosophy University of Münster Münster, Germany
Münster Lectures in Philosophy ISBN 978-3-319-26101-0 ISBN 978-3-319-26103-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26103-4
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Preface
Over the last four decades, Philip Pettit has made a remarkable number of seminal contributions to a variety of fields of philosophy, ranging from metaphysics and the philosophy of mind and action to the philosophy of the social sciences, philosophy of law, ethics, and political philosophy. These works have not only advanced systematic thinking about the most pressing issues debated in the respective areas, they also – and this is particularly exceptional in a time of increasing compartmentalization of philosophy and specialization of scholars – display a continuing quest for systematic coherence. Moreover, especially in his recent work in republican political philosophy, Pettit has demonstrated a thorough concern for the historical depth of conceptual issues and arguments, thus situating his approach to the theories of freedom and democracy in a particular tradition he seeks to revive and update. Pettit’s work has received considerable attention from scholars a
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