The original position /
edited by Timothy Hinton.
- ix, 281 pages ; 25 cm.
- Classic philosophical arguments .
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