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CURRICULUM VITAE Name: Philip Noel Pettit
Address: 308 Marx Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1012, USA
Email address: ppettit@princeton.edu
Website: http://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit
Citizenship Dual: Ireland (from birth 1945); Australia (naturalized 1988);
permanent resident, USA (2005).
Education and qualifications
1950-58 Primary education: National School, Ballygar.
1958-63 Secondary education: St Joseph's College, Garbally Park,
Ballinasloe.
1963-67 Undergraduate and graduate at Maynooth College, Maynooth
BA in Philosophy, First Class Honours, Autumn 1966 (National
University of Ireland)
LPh (by thesis) Summer 1967(Pontifical College, Maynooth).
MA (by thesis), First Class honours, Autumn 1967 (National
University).
1967-70 PhD student in Philosophy (part-time), Queen's University,
Belfast.
PhD conferred1970.
1972 MA (ex officio) Cambridge University, Autumn 2002
Appointments
1967-68 Lecturing Assistant at Queen's University, Belfast.
1968-72 Assistant Lecturer at University College, Dublin.
1972-75 Research Fellow, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
1975-77 College Lecturer, University College, Dublin.
1977-83 Professor of Philosophy, University of Bradford.
Chair, School of Interdisciplinary Human Studies.
1983-02 Professorial Fellow in Social and Political Theory, Research
School of Social Sciences, Australian National University,
Canberra.
Professor of Social and Political Theory, 1989, Research School
of Social Sciences, Australian National University Canberra
(Special appointment)
Joint appointment within Social and Political Theory and
Philosophy Programs, 2000. Merit Award 1999-2004
1997-2001 Multi-year Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Columbia
University, New York
2002- Laurance S.Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Affiliate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Princeton University
(W.N. Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University 02-
04)
Awards and honours
D.Litt. (honoris causa),
Politics, National University of Ireland, June 2000
Ph.D. (honoris causa),
Political Science, University of Crete, June 2005
Ph.D. (honoris causa),
Philosophy, Université de Montreal, June 2006
D.Litt. (honoris causa)
Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast, July 2007
D.Ph. (honoris causa), Philosophy, Lund University, May 2008
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, 1987-
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1988-
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009-
Awarded Australian Federation Fellowship 2005 (not taken up)
Old Dominion Faculty Fellow, Council of the Humanities,
Princeton University, 2005-06, 2007-08
Emeritus Professor of the Australian National University 2004
Centenary Medal for service to Australian Society and the
Humanities in the Study of Philosophy 2003
Invited International Member, The Tampere Club, 2001-
University Medal, University of Helsinki, April 1992
Elected Honorary Member, Italian Society for Analytical
Philosophy, Rome, 31 Oct 1992
Honorary appointments
Honorary Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney 2008-11
Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University, Belfast 2009-
2014 Commentaries
Xavier Vanmechelen (ed.) (2002) Afhankelijkheid zonder
dominantie. Over de sociale en politieke filosofie van Philip
Pettit. Leuven - Leusden, Acco, 204 p. ISBN 90-334-5079-8
[Dependence without Domination. On Philip Pettit's
Social and Political Philosophy. The authors are: Stefaan
Cuypers, Barbara Haverhals, Stefan Rummens, Ronald Tinnevelt,
Luc Van Liedekerke and Xavier Vanmechelen.] Common Minds: Themes from the Philosophy of Philip Pettit
eds, Geoffrey Brennan, R.E.Goodin Frank Jackson and Michael
Smith OUP, 2007. The authors are: John Braithwaite (ANU); John
Ferejohn (Stanford and NYU); Richard Holton (MIT); Susan Hurley
(Bristol); Rae Langton (MIT); Nicola Lacey (LSE); Cynthia
Macdonald (Belfast); Graham Macdonald (Canterbury); Peter
Menzies (Macquarie); Alva Noe (Berkeley); Thomas Scanlon
(Harvard); Jeremy Waldron (Columbia).
Jean-Fabien Spitz, Le republicanisme de Philip Pettit: Ontologie
sociale et philosophie politique, Michalon, Paris, 2009; series
'Le Bien Commun'.
J.L.Colomer and Antonio Gonzalez El republicanismo cívico de Ph.
Pettit, Ediciones del Laberinto de Madrid, forthcoming
Special Lectures
John Curtin Memorial Lecturer, A.N.U., 1989.
Annual Lecturer, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Nov
1991
Key Speaker, Nordic Graduate Program in Philosophy, Helsinki
Oct 1996
Parcells Lecturer, University of Connecticut, Feb 1999
Discussant, Lionel Trilling Seminar, Columbia Uni., March 1999
James B. and Grace J. Nelson Philosopher-in-Residence, Dept of
Philosophy, University of Michigan, April 2002
Donald R.Brown Memorial Lecturer, University of Vermont, Sept
02
Sawyer Seminar Presenter, Oxford University, Oct 02
Madden-Rooney Lecture, University of Notre Dame Irish Seminar
2004, Newman House, Dublin, June 2004
Public Lecture, with reply from Spanish Prime Minister, Circulo
de Bellas Artes, Madrid, July 2004; sponsored by Universidad
Autonoma de Madrid and Vodafone Espana.
"La Caixa" Lectures, Catalonia (Terragona, Girona, Lerida), Oct
04
Pufendorf Lectures, Lund University, Sweden, May 2005
Tanner Lectures (M.Sahlins) commentator, Uni of Michigan, Nov
2005
Judge William H.Orrick, Jr. Lecturer, School of Law, Berkeley,
March 2005
The Dialectica Lecture, German Association for Analytic
Philosophy Conference, Berlin Sept 2006
Francis W.Gramlich Lecture in Philosophy, Dartmouth College,
Oct 2006
Inaugural Edmund Burke Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin 2007
Sprague and Taylor Lecture in Philosophy, Brooklyn College,
CUNY, 2007
Public Lecture, in review of the Zapatero Government,
Complutense University, Madrid, June 2007
Ethics, Society and Politics Lecture, Rice University, 2008
Graduate Student Lecturer, 2007-08, Philosophy, Duke, 2008
Max Kampleman Lecturer On Human Rights, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem, 2007-08
Bank of Finland, Tampere Club Lecture, Sept 2008
Blackwell Lectures, Philosophy, Brown University, April 2009
Albertus Magnus Professor, Philosophy, University of Cologne,
June 2009
Distinguished Lecturer, University of Sydney Law School, July
2009
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy, Cambridge University, Oct 2009
Hourani Lecturer, Philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo, Nov 2009
Seeley Lecturer, University of Cambridge, April 2010
The Oslo Lecture on Mind in Nature, August 2010 Visiting positions
Visiting Lecturer, University of Witwatersrand, September 1974.
Guest Professor to Anthropology,Philosophy, and Sociology,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, March-May,1979.
Visiting Fellow, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian
National University, Canberra, Oct-Nov 1982.
Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, March-Sept 1986.
Distinguished Visitor, Massey University, August 1988
Willam Evans Visiting Fellow, University of Otago, Aug-Sept
1988
Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, April-Sept
1989
Official Visitor, Nuffield College, Oxford, April-Sept 1989
Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics,
April- July 1992
Professeur Invité, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales, Paris, September, 1992
Invited Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, October, 1992
Adjunct Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Monash University1992-95
Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, Oct 1993
1994 University of Auckland Foundation Visitor, Nov 1994
Visiting Professor, Universite de Neuchatel, March-June 1996
Professeur Invite, Institut Universitaire de France, March-May
1996 (affiliated to Universite de Caen).
Visiting Fellow, Philosophy Program, Research School of Social
Sciences, Australian National University, Jan-Sept 2003
Program Visitor, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian
National University, Jan 2005, Jan 2006
Scheduled Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
and Social Sciences, Stanford, 2009-10
Senior Scholar in Ethics. Edmond J.Safra Foundation Center for