Moral Contract Theory and Social Cognition An Empirical Perspective /

• Main Author: Timmerman, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, 48
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.; Political philosophy.; Industrial psychology.; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology.; Political Philosophy.

This interdisciplinary work draws on research from psychology and behavioral economics to evaluate the plausibility of moral contract theory. In a compelling manner with implications for moral theory more broadly, the author’s novel approach resolves a number of key contingencies in contractarianism...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements.- I Introduction.- 1 The Practicability Assumption
• 2 Contract Theory and Perspective-Taking
• 3 Perspective-Taking in Moral Judgment.- 4 Perspective-Taking Accuracy and the Contract Test.- 5 How to Use a Contract Test
• II The Translucency Assumption.- 6 Contract Theory and Translucency.- 7 Translucency and the Irrationality of Straightforward Maximization.- 8 Why Not Be an Opportunist?.- 9 When Constrained Maximization is Rational
• 10 Conclusions.- Appendix.-  Index.