David Gauthier
Canadian philosopher (1932–2023 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Gauthier FRSC (/ˈɡɔːtieɪ/; 10 September 1932 – 9 November 2023) was a Canadian philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian or contractarian theory of morality, as developed in his 1986 book Morals by Agreement.
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David Gauthier | |
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Born | (1932-09-10)10 September 1932 Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1] |
Died | 9 November 2023(2023-11-09) (aged 91) |
Education | University of Toronto (B.A. (Hons.), 1954) Harvard University (A.M., 1955) University of Oxford (B.Phil., 1957; D.Phil., 1961) |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Analytic Contractarianism Contractarian ethics Classical liberalism[2] |
Main interests | Political philosophy, game theory, rational choice theory |
Notable ideas | Contractarian ethics (morals by agreement), constrained maximization, Gauthier's Lockean proviso[3] |
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