Modern Social Contract Theory
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 8866
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/oso/9780198853541.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN
- 9780198853541
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first book to explore the logic and significance of post-1950 social contract theory in its major variants, building on research undertaken over decades. At more than 200,000 words long, it provides an integrated analysis of central themes in contract theory, including the shortcomings of a utility theory of rationality, the extent to which the theory avoids the problems of utilitarianism and intuitionism, and the failure, common across a number of variants, to explicate the logic of obligation such that humanity is treated as an end in itself. Its integrated argument requires the chapters to be published together.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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