1st Edition

Scanlon and Contractualism

By Matt Matravers Copyright 2003
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other , and comment critically both on Scanlon's contractualism and his revised understandings of motivation and morality. The essays illustrate the uses of Scanlon's contractualism by applying it to moral and political problems and in so doing they provide... Read more
1. Scanlon and Reasons 2. The Magic in the Pronoun 'My' 3. Contractualism, Spare Wheel, Aggregation 4. Responsibility and Choice 5. Promises and Perlocutions 6. Contractualism and the Virtues.

Biography

Matt Matravers