A conversation with Philip Pettit, a Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, on his new book “The State” (Princeton UP, 2023). Pettit has published several important works within the world of moral and political philosophy such as “On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of […]
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Eric MacGilvray (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Professor of Political Science and Philosophy. His research and teaching interests center in modern and contemporary political thought, with an emphasis on liberal, republican, and democratic theory and the pragmatic philosophical tradition. He is the author of Liberal Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2022), The Invention of Market Freedom (Cambridge University Press, […]
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