David Gauthier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 335290 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Gauthier |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Gauthier |
| FIRMA | GAUTHIER D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0964-5548 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Rational Deliberation
Almanac I
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Scientific Thought and Absolutes
G. Longo. Pensiero laico ed assoluti: i paradigmi della scienza. In Naturalmente, anno 19, 1, 10/2006. (laico-assol.pdf) (extensively revised, in English: Angelaki, Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, Volume 25, 2020 - Issue 3: special issue: ontogenesis beyond complexity. Issue editors: Cary Wolfe and Adam Nocek (science-vs-absolutes.pdf
Three against Justice
Conversation pieces
In the field of media art, mailinglists such as nettime, -empyre-, SPECTRE and CRUMB have functioned as important para-institutional formations that have influentially played host to a diverse community of artists, critics, curators, activists and academics since the 1990s. These lists, we suggest, are of particular epistemological and methodological interest for the field of internet history due to their critical and experimental nature. This st…
On the Politics of Chrono-Design
This article makes a contribution to interface criticism through the notion of chrono-design: the deliberate shaping of experiences of temporality and time through contemporary software techniques and digital technologies. This notion is articulated through discussions of network optimisation, user experience design, behavioural tracking, Hansen's work on 21st-century media and Hayles' framework of cognitive assemblages. In particular, the argume…
A Society of Individuals
In “A Society of Individuals,” I sketch a society that has no good of its own, no social end, but exists to enable each individual member better to pursue his own good, facilitating cooperation, and resolving the basic Interaction Problem (exemplified by the Prisoner’s Dilemma): that utility-maximization and Pareto-optimization are sometimes incompatible. The orthodox defend the rationality of maximization; I defend Pareto-optimization. I argue t…
The Prisoner's Dilemma
The Prisoner's Dilemma is one of the most fiercely debated thought experiments in philosophy and the social sciences, presenting the simple insight that when two or more agents interact, the actions that most benefit each individual may not benefit the group. The fact that when you do what is best for you, and I do what is best for me, we end up in a situation that is worse for both of us makes the Prisoner's Dilemma relevant to a broad range of …
Twenty-Five On
This article updates Morals by Agreement. It distinguishes two opposed conceptions of deliberative rationality—maximization and Pareto-optimization. It defends the latter. The constrained maximizers of Morals by Agreement are replaced by rational cooperators. They do not bargain but reach agreement on the principle of maximin proportionate gain, which is a relabeling of maximin relative benefit. The contractarian test, of the acceptability of soc…
Are We Moral Debtors
Trust within Reason
Political Contractarianism
I want to enquire into the relationship between the normative claims of a society and the normative stances of its members. I shall develop a contractarian perspective, as the only one available to persons who may neither expect nor require their fellows to share their own orientation to values and norms. Although I only touch on these matters here, I hope to contribute to an interpretation of the clauses on the establishment and exercise of reli…
Breaking Up
Current discussion of the normative issues surrounding secession is both helped and hindered by the existence of but one philosophic treatment of these issues sufficiently systematic and comprehensive to qualify as a theory of secession - Allen Buchanan’s. He provides the unique focal point, and so simplifies the task of those who seek to begin from the present state of the art. But in providing the unique focal point, Buchanan complicates the ta…
Moral Dealing
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Moral Dealing: Contract, Ethics, and Reason. By David Gauthier. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1990. Pp. viii + 371. Price $43.95 h/b, S14.95 p/b.)Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement. Edited by Peter Vallentyne. ( Cambridge UP, 1991. Pp. xiv + 339. Price £35.00 h/b, £12.95 p/b.) Rex Martin Rex Martin University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: …
Moral Dealing
Morals by Agreement
The Standard of Living
Morality, Rational Choice, and Semantic Representation
(1) In his recent paper, “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical,” John Rawls makes use of a footnote to disown what to many readers must have seemed one of the most striking and original underlying ideas of his theory of justice, that it “is a part, perhaps the most significant part, of the theory of rational choice.” That Rawls should issue this disclaimer indicates, at least in my view, that he has a much clearer understanding of his …
Morality by Agreement
George Grant's Justice
In 1974, George Grant delivered the Josiah Wood lectures at Mount Allison University on the theme English-Speaking Justice . The lectures, first published in 1978, have been republished, and a volume of later essays on somewhat related themes has recently appeared. Grant's work offers an impressionistic but deep challenge to the conception of justice in modern moral thought and practice, a challenge paralleled, in interesting and important ways, …
Gauthier's Theory of Morals by Agreement
Journal Article Gauthier's Theory of Morals by Agreement Get access David GauthierMorals by Agreement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. vi + 367. Price £27.50. Richmond Campbell Richmond Campbell Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 152, July 1988, Pages 343–364, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220134 Published: 01 July 1988
Reason to be moral
Morals by Agreement
Morals by agreement
Rationality, Justice and the Social Contract Themes From Morals by Agreement
In one important tradition of political and ethical thought, principles of justice are viewed as if they arose from a contract among individuals, drawn up in some pre-social state of nature. David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement is a contribution to this tradition, which seeks to show that rational individuals would accept certain moral constraints on their choices. In this volume, a group of philosophers, economists and political theorists discus…
The Logic of Leviathan
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Logic of Leviathan: The moral and political theory of Thomas Hobbes. By David P. Gauthier. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1969. Pp. x + 217. Price 38s) W. J. Rees W. J. Rees Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 80, July 1970, Page 271, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218403 Published: 01 July 1970
Political Contractarianism
I want to enquire into the relationship between the normative claims of a society and the normative stances of its members. I shall develop a contractarian perspective, as the only one available to persons who may neither expect nor require their fellows to share their own orientation to values and norms. Although I only touch on these matters here, I hope to contribute to an interpretation of the clauses on the establishment and exercise of reli…
David Hume, Contractarian
On the Politics of Chrono-Design
This article makes a contribution to interface criticism through the notion of chrono-design: the deliberate shaping of experiences of temporality and time through contemporary software techniques and digital technologies. This notion is articulated through discussions of network optimisation, user experience design, behavioural tracking, Hansen's work on 21st-century media and Hayles' framework of cognitive assemblages. In particular, the argume…
Coordination
In the days when the Great Central and the Midland ran competitive services from Leicester to London, I agreed to meet your train when you came up from Leicester. "It arrives at 12.5", you said in your letter. But you neglected to mention which station, and only on the morning of your journey did each of us realize that this matter had been left open. You intended to travel from Leicester Central, it being more convenient for you than London Road…
Morality and Advantage
Hume asks, rhetorically, ‘what theory of morals can ever serve any useful purpose, unless it can show, by a particular detail, that all the duties which it recommends, are also the true interest of each individual?’ But there are many to whom this question does not seem rhetorical. The belief that duty cannot be reduced to interest, or that morality may require the agent to subordinate all considerations of advantage, is one which has withstood t…
Gauthier's Theory of Morals by Agreement
Journal Article Gauthier's Theory of Morals by Agreement Get access David GauthierMorals by Agreement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. vi + 367. Price £27.50. Richmond Campbell Richmond Campbell Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 152, July 1988, Pages 343–364, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220134 Published: 01 July 1988
Conversation pieces
In the field of media art, mailinglists such as nettime, -empyre-, SPECTRE and CRUMB have functioned as important para-institutional formations that have influentially played host to a diverse community of artists, critics, curators, activists and academics since the 1990s. These lists, we suggest, are of particular epistemological and methodological interest for the field of internet history due to their critical and experimental nature. This st…
Are We Moral Debtors
Reason to be moral
Justified Inequality
The overall objective of my current researches is to formulate and defend a variant of contractarian moral and social theory. Only a contractarian theory is, I claim, compatible with-and indeed required by-the theory of rational choice. I say "a variant" of contractarian theory because, for reasons I sketch in my paper "The Social Contract as Ideology", there is a deep danger inherent in contractarian theory, the danger that it may be supposed th…
Stephan Körner
This interesting volume (published by Yale University Press, 1974) offers sustenance to almost all who have an appetite for the problems of practical reason. As the Proceedings of the First Bristol Conference on Critical Philosophy, it contains the five papers presented there, with the remarks of commentators and, in three cases, replies. First, the bill of fare.Roderick Chisholm opens with "Practical Reason and the Logic of Requirement", about w…
Practical Reasoning
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Practical Reasoning : The structure and foundations of prudential and moral arguments and their exemplification in discourse. By David P. Gauthier. (Oxford : Clarendon Press. 1963. Pp. x + 210. Price 35s). Bernard Mayo Bernard Mayo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 15, Issue 59, April 1965, Pages 184–185, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218…
Practical Reasoning
Morality and Advantage
Hume asks, rhetorically, ‘what theory of morals can ever serve any useful purpose, unless it can show, by a particular detail, that all the duties which it recommends, are also the true interest of each individual?’ But there are many to whom this question does not seem rhetorical. The belief that duty cannot be reduced to interest, or that morality may require the agent to subordinate all considerations of advantage, is one which has withstood t…
The Logic of Leviathan
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Logic of Leviathan: The moral and political theory of Thomas Hobbes. By David P. Gauthier. (Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1969. Pp. x + 217. Price 38s) W. J. Rees W. J. Rees Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 80, July 1970, Page 271, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218403 Published: 01 July 1970
Reasons for Actions
Justice and Natural Endowment
Coordination
In the days when the Great Central and the Midland ran competitive services from Leicester to London, I agreed to meet your train when you came up from Leicester. "It arrives at 12.5", you said in your letter. But you neglected to mention which station, and only on the morning of your journey did each of us realize that this matter had been left open. You intended to travel from Leicester Central, it being more convenient for you than London Road…
Why Ought One Obey God? Reflections on Hobbes and Locke
Lastly, those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of a God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all. These words, from Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, ring unconvincingly in our ears. They affirm that the bonds of human society hold only those who believe in God. This affirmation breaks into two pro…
Stephan Körner
This interesting volume (published by Yale University Press, 1974) offers sustenance to almost all who have an appetite for the problems of practical reason. As the Proceedings of the First Bristol Conference on Critical Philosophy, it contains the five papers presented there, with the remarks of commentators and, in three cases, replies. First, the bill of fare.Roderick Chisholm opens with "Practical Reason and the Logic of Requirement", about w…
David Hume, Contractarian
Three against Justice
Justified Inequality
The overall objective of my current researches is to formulate and defend a variant of contractarian moral and social theory. Only a contractarian theory is, I claim, compatible with-and indeed required by-the theory of rational choice. I say "a variant" of contractarian theory because, for reasons I sketch in my paper "The Social Contract as Ideology", there is a deep danger inherent in contractarian theory, the danger that it may be supposed th…
Reason to be moral
Morals by Agreement
Morals by agreement
Morality, Rational Choice, and Semantic Representation
(1) In his recent paper, “Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical,” John Rawls makes use of a footnote to disown what to many readers must have seemed one of the most striking and original underlying ideas of his theory of justice, that it “is a part, perhaps the most significant part, of the theory of rational choice.” That Rawls should issue this disclaimer indicates, at least in my view, that he has a much clearer understanding of his …
Morality by Agreement
George Grant's Justice
In 1974, George Grant delivered the Josiah Wood lectures at Mount Allison University on the theme English-Speaking Justice . The lectures, first published in 1978, have been republished, and a volume of later essays on somewhat related themes has recently appeared. Grant's work offers an impressionistic but deep challenge to the conception of justice in modern moral thought and practice, a challenge paralleled, in interesting and important ways, …
Gauthier's Theory of Morals by Agreement
Journal Article Gauthier's Theory of Morals by Agreement Get access David GauthierMorals by Agreement. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. vi + 367. Price £27.50. Richmond Campbell Richmond Campbell Dalhousie University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 152, July 1988, Pages 343–364, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220134 Published: 01 July 1988
Morals by Agreement
The Standard of Living
Moral Dealing
Moral Dealing
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Moral Dealing: Contract, Ethics, and Reason. By David Gauthier. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1990. Pp. viii + 371. Price $43.95 h/b, S14.95 p/b.)Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement. Edited by Peter Vallentyne. ( Cambridge UP, 1991. Pp. xiv + 339. Price £35.00 h/b, £12.95 p/b.) Rex Martin Rex Martin University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: …
Breaking Up
Current discussion of the normative issues surrounding secession is both helped and hindered by the existence of but one philosophic treatment of these issues sufficiently systematic and comprehensive to qualify as a theory of secession - Allen Buchanan’s. He provides the unique focal point, and so simplifies the task of those who seek to begin from the present state of the art. But in providing the unique focal point, Buchanan complicates the ta…
Political Contractarianism
I want to enquire into the relationship between the normative claims of a society and the normative stances of its members. I shall develop a contractarian perspective, as the only one available to persons who may neither expect nor require their fellows to share their own orientation to values and norms. Although I only touch on these matters here, I hope to contribute to an interpretation of the clauses on the establishment and exercise of reli…
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