Back ديفيد غوثير Arabic ديفيد جوثير ARZ David Gauthier Catalan David Gauthier German Ντέιβιντ Γκωτιέ Greek David Gauthier Spanish دیوید گوتیه Persian David Gauthier Finnish David Gauthier French Դեյվիդ Գոտիե Armenian
David Gauthier | |
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| Born | 10 September 1932 Toronto, Ontario, Canada[3] |
| Died | 9 November 2023 (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[1] |
Main interests | Political philosophy, game theory, rational choice theory |
Notable ideas | Contractarian ethics (morals by agreement), constrained maximization, Gauthier's Lockean proviso[2] |
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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.
- ^ Andrew Vincent, Modern Political Ideologies, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, p. 54.
- ^ "Contractarianism". Contractarianism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2021., §3
- ^ University of Pittsburgh, David Gauthier: Biography