Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorWatson, Terrenceen
dc.date.accessioned2006-08-22 13:41:14 (GMT)
dc.date.available2006-08-22 13:41:14 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2004en
dc.date.submitted2004en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/762
dc.description.abstractMoral contractarianism, as demonstrated in the work of David Gauthier, is an attempt to derive moral principles from the non-moral premises of rational choice. However, this contractarian enterprise runs aground because it is unable to show that agents would commit to norms in a fairly realistic world where knowledge is limited in space and time, where random shocks are likely, and where agents can be arbitrarily differentiated from one another. In a world like this, agents will find that the most "rational" strategy is to behave "non-rationally," imitating the behavior of others in their vicinity and preserving a limited sort of ignorance.en
dc.formatapplication/pdfen
dc.format.extent7548968 bytes
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.rightsCopyright: 2004, Watson, Terrence. All rights reserved.en
dc.subjectPhilosophyen
dc.subjectContractarianismen
dc.subjectGauthieren
dc.subjectconservativismen
dc.subjectevolutionary dynamicsen
dc.subjectcomputer simulationsen
dc.titleConservative Contractarianismen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalseen
uws-etd.degree.departmentPhilosophyen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record


UWSpace

University of Waterloo Library
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
519 888 4883

All items in UWSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved.

DSpace software

Service outages