Lauener Foundation for Analytical Philosophy
Symposium
Friday 02 September 2016
Bern, Switzerland
7th International Lauener Symposium on Analytical Philosophy
on Themes from Thomas M. Scanlon
Professor Thomas M. Scanlon
(Harvard University)
Contractualism and Justification
A reexamination of the contractualist moral theory that I presented in “Contractualism and Utilitarianism” and in What We Owe to Each Other. I will discuss why a view of this kind is appealing, and consider some objections to the particular version that I have presented, with special reference to the role of the idea of “justifiability to a person.”
