Contractarianism and Rational Choice

Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement

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David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement (1986) is the most complete and suggestive contractarian theory of morality since the work of Rawls. In this anthology a number of prominent moral and political philosophers offer a critical assessment of Gauthier's theory and its three main projects: developing a contractarian foundation for morality, defending a theory of rational choice, and supporting the claim that rationality requires one to keep one's agreements. An introduction sets out Gauthier's project, while Gauthier himself has the last word, responding to the critiques. This collection will interest moral and political philosophers, social theorists, and specialists in the philosophy and theory of law as well as management sciences.

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Preface	p. ix
Notes on the contributors	p. xi
Biographical note on David Gauthier	p. xv
Gauthier's three projects	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Gauthier's moral methodology	p. 1
Gauthier's contractarian theory	p. 3
Gauthier's rational-choice framework	p. 5
The initial bargaining position	p. 6
The bargaining solution	p. 7
The rationality of complying with rational agreements	p. 9
Conclusion	p. 11
Gauthier's contractarian moral theory
Overview of the essays	p. 13
Why contractarianism?	p. 15
Two faces of contractarian thought	p. 31
Gauthier's foundations for ethics under the test of application	p. 56
Deliberation	p. 58
Revolution	p. 64
Accumulation of exceptions	p. 66
Contractarianism and the assumption of mutual unconcern	p. 71
Moral standing and rational-choice contractarianism	p. 76
Rational-choice contractarianism	p. 78
Moral standing	p. 81
Moral standing in rational-choice contractarian morality	p. 83
Self-interest and moral standing	p. 90
Minimax relative concession and the Lockean Proviso
Overview of the essays	p. 97
The Lockean Proviso	p. 99
Moralities and starting points	p. 101
Slaves, servants, and serfs	p. 102
The market as moral anarchy	p. 104
Prerequisites for social agreement	p. 106
Three rejoinders	p. 108
Providing for rights	p. 112
Gauthier on distributive justice and the natural baseline	p. 127
Introduction: Gauthier's contractarianism	p. 127
Gauthier on distributive justice	p. 129
Gauthier on predatory gains and the Lockean Proviso	p. 136
On the Hobbesian starting point	p. 144
Relations between states	p. 146
Summary	p. 147
Equalizing concessions in the pursuit of justice: A discussion of Gauthier's bargaining solution	p. 149
Gauthier's approach to distributive justice and other bargaining solutions	p. 162
Nash's bargaining solution	p. 163
The Kalai-Smorodinski solution	p. 168
Gauthier's maximin solution	p. 170
Concluding remarks	p. 175
The rationality of keeping agreements
Overview of the essays	p. 177
Deception and reasons to be moral	p. 181
Contractarianism and moral skepticism	p. 196
The skeptical problem: First account	p. 198
The contractarian solution	p. 200
Rational compliance and skepticism	p. 204
The relevance objection: Substantive impartiality	p. 208
The relevance objection: Archimedean impartiality	p. 212
Justification: Internal objections	p. 219
Justification: External objections	p. 224
The skeptical problem: Revised account	p. 225
Deriving morality from rationality	p. 229
Introduction	p. 229
Gauthier's core argument for the rationality of compliance	p. 232
Comment on premises 1 and 2	p. 235
Does constrained maximization maximize expected utility?	p. 238
The alleged rationality of carrying out rational intentions	p. 244
The derivation of morality from rationality	p. 249
Morality and the theory of rational choice	p. 254
The rational-choice framework	p. 255
Fairness and constrained maximization	p. 261
Fairness and bargaining	p. 262
Fairness and stability	p. 265
Broad and narrow compliance	p. 272
The arguments from rational and costless bargaining	p. 286
Conclusion	p. 289
Closing the compliance dilemma: How it's rational to be moral in a Lamarckian world	p. 291
The compliance problem	p. 291
Substantive rationality	p. 297
Procedural rationality	p. 306
Morality	p. 316
Conclusion	p. 322
Rational constraint: Some last words	p. 323
Bibliography	p. 331
Index	p. 337
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