The birth of ethics

Philip Pettit

Oxford University Press - New York City

2018

Group agency

Christian ListPhilip Pettit

Oxford University Press - New York City

2011

Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individual agents that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should explain the behavior of these entities and whether we should treat them as responsible and accountable on the model of individual agents. This book offers a new approach to that question, arguing that there really are group or corporate agents, over and above the individual agents who compose them, and that a proper approach to the social sciences, law, morality, and politics must take account of this fact.

Metaphysics and morality

Philip Pettit, Richard Sylvan, Judith Norman (eds)

Blackwell - Oxford

1987

On the idea of phenomenology

Philip Pettit

Scepter books - Dublin

1969