Scanlon and Contractualism

✍ Scribed by Matt Matravers

• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 125
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 an assessment of the ability of Scanlon's contractualism by applying it to other forms of ethical theory. The resulting volume makes an important and original contribution to the literature on Scanlon, on contractualism and on contemporary political philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Notes on Contributors......Page 6
1 Introduction: Scanlon’s Contractualism......Page 7
REFERENCES......Page 16
Reasons and Rationality......Page 17
The Nature and Role of Desire......Page 20
The Objective Nature of Practical Reasoning......Page 27
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 31
REFERENCES......Page 32
3 The Magic in the Pronoun ‘My’......Page 33
Two Levels of Impartiality......Page 35
Refining the Priority Question......Page 37
The Reductivist Response......Page 38
The Identity Response......Page 39
The Truth in Reductivism......Page 40
The Truth in Identity......Page 42
The Flaws in Reductivism......Page 43
The Flaws in the Identity Response......Page 44
A Rapprochement......Page 45
Conclusion......Page 47
REFERENCES......Page 48
Ambitions and Scope of Scanlon’s Contractualism......Page 50
The Spare Wheel Objection......Page 54
Assessing Rules Individually or as Sets......Page 58
Fairness......Page 62
Aggregation......Page 63
REFERENCES......Page 69
Preamble......Page 71
Responsibility: Metaphysical and Moral......Page 73
Scanlon on Responsibility......Page 74
Attributive Responsibility......Page 75
Substantive Responsibility......Page 78
Conclusion......Page 80
NOTES......Page 82
REFERENCES......Page 83
Introduction......Page 85
The Principle of Fidelity......Page 87
The Value of Assurance......Page 89
Reasonable Rejection......Page 93
The Logical Circle......Page 94
An Attempt to Exit the Circle......Page 95
The Conditional Belief Requirement......Page 97
A Different Attempt to Exit the Circle......Page 98
Reconstructing the Principle of Fidelity......Page 99
Conclusion......Page 103
NOTES......Page 104
REFERENCES......Page 107
7 Contractualism and the Virtues......Page 109
REFERENCES......Page 118
Contractualism, Spare Wheel, Aggregation......Page 120
Contractualism and the Virtues......Page 121
Index......Page 123