Rules, Reasons, and Norms Selected Essays

I.0 - My Claims about Thought
I.1 - The Reality of Rule-following
I.2 - Realism and Response-dependence
I.3 - Noumenalism and Response-dependence
I.4 - Defining and Defending Social Holism
I.5 - A Theory of Normal and Ideal Conditions
II.0 - My Claims about Choice
II.1 - Three Aspects of Rational Explanation
II.2 - Decision Theory and Folk Psychology
II.3 - The Virtual Reality of Homo Economicus
II.4 - Functional Explanation and Virtual Selection
II.5 - The Capacity to Have Done Otherwise
III.0 - My Claims about Regulation
III.1 - Rational Choice Regulation: Two Strategies
III.2 - Virtus Normativa: Rational Choice Perspectives
III.3 - The Cunning of Trust
III.4 - Enfranchising Silence
III.5 - Instituting a Research Ethic: Chilling And Cautionary Tales

Philip Pettit teaches political theory and philosophy at Princeton, where he is Professor of Politics. He moved to Princeton in 2002 from the Australian National University.