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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.
Jun 18, 2000 · A brief sketch of the most complete and influential contemporary contractarian theory, David Gauthier’s, is in order. Gauthier’s project in Morals By Agreement is to employ a contractarian approach to grounding morality in rationality in order to defeat the moral skeptic.
In the twentieth century, moral and political theory regained philosophical momentum as a result of John Rawls’ Kantian version of social contract theory, and was followed by new analyses of the subject by David Gauthier and others.
Jun 18, 2000 · The most important contemporary political social contract theorist is John Rawls, who effectively resurrected social contract theory in the second half of the 20th century, along with David Gauthier, who is primarily a moral contractarian.
Sep 1, 2022 · A few months ahead of his 90th birthday, in May 2022, David Gauthier, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Philosophy at U of T, published not one but two volumes of collected writings with Oxford University Press.
Eminent philosopher David Gauthier is best known for his social contract theory of morality. In addition to moral theory, his work explores the history of political philosophy, with special attention to Hobbes and Rousseau, and the theory of practical rationality.
Nov 13, 2023 · David Gauthier, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, has died. Professor Gauthier was well-known for his contractarian theory of morality, set forth in his 1986 book, Morals By Agreement (Oxford University Press).
Jan 20, 2022 · A collection of David Gauthier’s writings on practical rationality and deliberation, all but two written after Morals by Agreement (1986).
Rousseau is often portrayed as an educational and social reformer whose aim was to increase individual freedom. In this volume David Gauthier examines Rousseau's evolving notion of freedom, where he focuses on a single quest: can freedom and the independent self be regained?
David Gauthier, a philosopher at the University of Pittsburgh, now joins Buchanan in his concern with the concept of consent and thus goes back to the roots of public choice theory, but from a mirror image perspective.
