Overview
- 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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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".
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Lecture
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Colloquium
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Reply Essay
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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