Philip Pettit

Details of Easter Rising national conference revealed

NUI Galway summit is one of the last setpiece events of the centenary commemorations

Unthinkable: Is philosophy having an existential crisis?

Irish governments have been slow to draw on philosophers, argues Joseph Mahon

Philip Pettit: The republican image of freedom offers a moral compass for our country

In order to enjoy democratic freedom, the people of a republic should share equally in imposing community standards on government

Fintan O’Toole: Publishing tax returns a good way to revive ideals of Rising

Confidentiality of tax returns is unquestionable only because it is unquestioned

Transferring power from politicians to ‘unelected agents’ can help democracy

Political philosopher Philip Pettit delivers counter-intuitive message at Garret FitzGerald summer school lecture

How can we be free from corporate domination?

Philosopher Philip Pettit warns that we are holding corporations ‘less effectively to their responsibilities than we hold individuals to theirs’

Is the Irish media devoid of intellectual depth?

‘We need to see that there are different ways of looking at the world to that served to us by the mass media, which is necessarily pretty banal,’ argues Desmond Fennell

Unthinkable: Are freedom and equality inevitably in conflict?

In the cry for freedom, what exactly are people looking for?

The police protect us, but occasionally we also need to be protected from them

Opinion: What happened to David Miranda shows what could happen to any of us

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