Contractualism, spare wheel, aggregation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12610275 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brad Hooker (0000-0003-1164-6328, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 53-76 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698230410001702592 |
| OpenAlex | W2008343241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay explores the reasons for thinking that Scanlon's contractualist principle serves merely as a ‘spare wheel’, an element that spins along nicely but bears no real weight, because it presupposes too much of what it should be explaning. The ambitions and scope of Scanlon's contractualism are discussed, as is Scanlon's thesis that contracualism will assess candidate moral principles individually rather than as sets. The final third of the paper critizes Scanlon's account of fairness and his approach to cases where agents can save either one person or many people
Contractualism · Economics · Element (criminal law · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political science · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Spare part · Computer Science · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |