Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality

Dr Nicholas Southwood is a junior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford and an assistant professor in the Philosophy Program at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He works primarily in moral and political philosophy, with a particular focus on questions concerning practical reason and normativity, and has published widely in those areas.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Limits of Hobbesian Contractualism ; 3. The Limits of Kantian Contractualism ; 4. The Structure of Deliberative Contractualism ; 5. The Normativity of Deliberative Contractualism ; 6. Getting Morality Right ; 7. Grounding Morality ; References

This book is well worth reading. ... For those at all sympathetic to [the contractualist] tradition, this is a clear and worthwhile addition to the literature