This volume documents the 16th Mรผnster 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, Group Agency, and Republicanism.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding Goods....Pages 3-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Rule-Following and A Priori Biconditionals โ A Sea of Tears?....Pages 19-31
Pettitโs Mixed Causal Descriptivism: Feeling Blue....Pages 33-42
Discovering the Properties of โQualiaโ in Pettitโs Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness....Pages 43-48
Playing Pong with the Mind? Pettitโs Program Model and Mental Causation....Pages 49-59
Notes on Pettitโs Concept of Orthonomy....Pages 61-69
Two Problems of Value-Monistic Consequentialism in Philip Pettitโs Theory of Criminal Justice....Pages 71-79
Indirect Consequentialism and Moral Psychology....Pages 81-90
What Is the Foundation of Pettitโs Non-redundant Realism About Group Agents?....Pages 91-100
Pluralism Across Domains....Pages 101-109
Which Liberalism, Which Republicanism? Constructing Traditions of Political Thought with Philip Pettit....Pages 111-121
Focusing on the Eyeball Test: A Problematic Testing Device in Philip Pettitโs Theory of Justice....Pages 123-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Self-defense on Five Fronts: A Reply to My Commentators....Pages 135-164
โฆ Subjects
Ethics; Political Philosophy; Epistemology
