The Original Position

Herausgeber: Hinton, Timothy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of new essays examines the ramifications of the original position, the central idea of John Rawls's political philosophy, from a broad range of perspectives. Accessible and comprehensive, it is a valuable resource for undergraduates, as well as advanced students, of philosophy, game theory, economics, and the social and political sciences.

Produktdetails

• Classic Philosophical Arguments
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781107044487
• ISBN-10: 1107044480
• Artikelnr.: 43103577

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations
Introduction: the original position and The Original Position - an overview Timothy Hinton
1. Justice as fairness, utilitarianism, and mixed conceptions David O. Brink
2. Rational choice and the original position: the (many) models of Rawls and Harsanyi Gerald Gaus and John Thrasher
3. The strains of commitment Jeremy Waldron
4. Our talents, our histories, ourselves: Nozick on the original position argument John Christman
5. Rawls and Dworkin on hypothetical reasoning Matthew Clayton
6. Feminist receptions of the original position Amy R. Baehr
7. G. A. Cohen's critique of the original position David Estlund
8. Liberals, radicals, and the original position Timothy Hinton
9. The original position and Scanlon's contractualism Joshua Cohen
10. The 'Kantian roots' of the original position Andrews Reath
11. Stability and the original position from Theory to Political Liberalism Paul Weithman
12. The original position in the law of peoples Gillian Brock
References
Index.