Gregory J Robson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4281806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory J Robson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory J |
| FAMILY NAME | Robson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBSON G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Are social contracts possible without actual negotiation
This article addresses one of the several moral arguments for the state, the social contract argument, showing that this argument has been inadequately justified. The terms of any contract are determined by negotiation among the parties to the contract. The terms of any contract cannot be known absent actual negotiation to produce them. Social contract theorists widely believe that actual negotiation and actual agreement with a social contract di…
Technology Ethics
In this chapter, the author explains the post-phenomenological approach to ethics of technology. He introduces post-phenomenology itself, as a specific way to analyze technology and its role in society and discusses the various dimensions of the moral significance of technology that become visible from the post-phenomenological approach. The author explains how technologies mediate moral actions and decisions, how they help to shape value framewo…
The Dialectics of Liberty
The contributors to this anthology insightfully explore ‘the context of human freedom’ (p. 13). This exploration is ‘dialectical’ because it engages in logical analysis and synthesis of economic, political, and other principles and ideas that often just appear in tension with one another (pp. 3–4). I will describe Dialectics of Liberty and then discuss two related essays on the moral status of government coercion. The book's three parts include c…
Two Psychological Defenses of Hobbes’s Claim Against the “Fool”
A striking feature of Thomas Hobbes’s account of political obligation is his discussion of the Fool, who thinks it reasonable to adopt a policy of selective, self-interested covenant breaking. Surprisingly, scholars have paid little attention to the potential of a psychological defense of Hobbes’s controversial claim that the Fool behaves irrationally. In this paper, I first describe Hobbes’s account of the Fool and argue that the kind of Fool mo…
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Two Psychological Defenses of Hobbes’s Claim Against the “Fool”
A striking feature of Thomas Hobbes’s account of political obligation is his discussion of the Fool, who thinks it reasonable to adopt a policy of selective, self-interested covenant breaking. Surprisingly, scholars have paid little attention to the potential of a psychological defense of Hobbes’s controversial claim that the Fool behaves irrationally. In this paper, I first describe Hobbes’s account of the Fool and argue that the kind of Fool mo…
The Dialectics of Liberty
The contributors to this anthology insightfully explore ‘the context of human freedom’ (p. 13). This exploration is ‘dialectical’ because it engages in logical analysis and synthesis of economic, political, and other principles and ideas that often just appear in tension with one another (pp. 3–4). I will describe Dialectics of Liberty and then discuss two related essays on the moral status of government coercion. The book's three parts include c…
Technology Ethics
In this chapter, the author explains the post-phenomenological approach to ethics of technology. He introduces post-phenomenology itself, as a specific way to analyze technology and its role in society and discusses the various dimensions of the moral significance of technology that become visible from the post-phenomenological approach. The author explains how technologies mediate moral actions and decisions, how they help to shape value framewo…
Are social contracts possible without actual negotiation
This article addresses one of the several moral arguments for the state, the social contract argument, showing that this argument has been inadequately justified. The terms of any contract are determined by negotiation among the parties to the contract. The terms of any contract cannot be known absent actual negotiation to produce them. Social contract theorists widely believe that actual negotiation and actual agreement with a social contract di…
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Coercion (linguistics) (1 work) · Constitutional law (1 work)