Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philip pettit”
Skip side bar filters

  • Just Freedom

    A Moral Compass for a Complex World

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Series series
    An esteemed philosopher offers a vision for the central role of one of our most cherished—and controversial—ideas.In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for social and democratic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The State

    by Philip Pettit ...
    A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Or is the state just not up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • On the People's Terms

    A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Series series The Seeley Lectures
    According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip Pettit addresses this ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • A Theory of Freedom

    From the Psychology to the Politics of Agency

    by Philip Pettit ...
    This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject. Pettit develops an argument as to what it is that makes someone free in that basic sense; and then goes on to derive the implications of the approach for issues of freedom in political theory. Freedom in the subject is equated with the person's being fit to ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • When Minds Converse

    A Social Genealogy of the Human Soul

    by Philip Pettit ...
    When Minds Converse argues that we do not speak because our human minds are special; our minds are special because we can speak. It maintains that six capacities characteristic of our species emerge as social skills in conversing with one another and that we internalize those skills in mentally communing with ourselves in thought. Philip Pettit defends a society-first view of the human mind and ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Birth of Ethics

    Reconstructing the Role and Nature of Morality

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Series series The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
    Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one another, but did not have any properly moral concepts in which to exhort one another to meet certain standards and to lodge related claims and complaints. According to The Birth of Ethics, the members of that society would have ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Made with Words

    Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Hobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. But this work is of immense interest in itself, as Philip Pettit shows in Made with Words, and it critically shapes Hobbes's political philosophy.Pettit argues that it was Hobbes, not later thinkers like Rousseau, who invented ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Robust Demands of the Good

    Ethics with Attachment, Virtue, and Respect

    by Philip Pettit ...
    Series series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
    Philip Pettit offers a new insight into moral psychology. He shows that attachments such as love, and certain virtues such as honesty, require not only their characteristic positive behaviours in the actual world (i.e. as things are), but preservation of those characteristic behaviours across a range of counterfactual scenarios in which things are different from how they actually are. The ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • A Political Philosophy in Public Life

    Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain

    by Philip Pettit, José Luis Martí ...
    The story of a Princeton professor's role as the unofficial philosophical adviser to the Spanish governmentThis book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became Spain's opposition leader in 2000, he pledged that if his socialist party won power he ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology

    Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit ...
    Series series Wiley Philosophy Anthologies
    The revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit’s highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together the field’s most important readings in a single volumeUnparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this newly-revised third edition traces the evolution of political philosophy as a contemporary practice, and raises important questions about the impact of ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Socializing Metaphysics

    The Nature of Social Reality

    by Frederick F. Schmitt, Gary Ebbs, Margaret Gilbert, Sally Haslanger, Kevin Kimble, Ron Mallon, Seumas Miller, Philip Pettit, Abraham Sesshu Roth, John Searle, Raimo Tuomela, Edward Witherspoon ...
    Human life is conducted within a network of social relations, social groups, and societies. Grasping the implications of that fact starts with understanding social metaphysics. Social metaphysics provides a foundation for social theory, as well as for social epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, action theory, ethics, and political philosophy. This volume will interest anyone ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Semantics and Social Science

    by Graham MacDonald, Philip Pettit ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1980, this book examines the major issues in the philosophy of social science, paying specific attention to cross-cultural understanding, humanism versus scientism, individualism versus collectivism, and the shaping of theory by evaluative commitment. Arguing for a cross-cultural conception of human beings, the authors defend humanism and individualism, and reject the ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD