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The original position / edited by Timothy Hinton.

Contributor(s): Series: Classic philosophical argumentsPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: ix, 281 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107044487 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781107627512 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.01 HIN 23
LOC classification:
  • JA71 .O675 2015
Contents:
Table of contents 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-273) and index.

Table of contents
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

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