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Strategic Justice: Convention and Problems of Balancing Divergent Interests: Oxford Moral Theory

Autor Peter Vanderschraaf
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 ian 2019
In Strategic Justice, Peter Vanderschraaf argues that justice can be properly understood as a body of special social conventions. The idea that justice is at bottom conventional has ancient roots, but has never been central in philosophy because convention itself has historically been so poorly understood. Vanderschraaf gives a new defense of this idea that integrates insights and arguments of past masters of moral and political philosophy together with recent analytical and empirical concepts and results from the social sciences. One of the substantial contributions of this work is a new account of convention that is sufficiently general for summarizing problems of justice, the social interactions where the interests of the agents involved diverge. Conventions are defined as equilibrium solutions to the games that summarize social interactions having a variety of possible stable resolutions and a corresponding plurality of equilibria. The basic idea that justice consists of a system of rules for mutual advantage is explored in depth using this game-theoretic analysis of convention. Justice is analyzed as a system of conventions that are stable with respect to renegotiation in the face of societal changes such as resource depletion, technological innovation and population decline or growth. This new account of justice-as-convention explains in a cogent and natural way what justice is and why individuals have good reason to obey its requirements. Contrary to what many have thought, this new account shows how the justice-as-convention view can give a good account of why justice requires that the most vulnerable members of society receive protections and benefits from the cooperative surplus created by general compliance with justice.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199832194
ISBN-10: 0199832196
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 236 x 163 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Seria Oxford Moral Theory

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

Peter Vanderschraaf's Strategic Justice is the culmination of one of the major philosophical projects of the second half of the twentieth century. The basic thought is compelling: perhaps social morality can be either derived from, or reconciled with, the best strategy for each rational agent to promote her own interests in cooperative contexts ... Vanderschraaf has a better grasp of the philosophical and game theoretic background than any previous exponent, and builds on this to yield some stunning innovations and insights. Strategic Justice is a tremendous achievement -- it requires hard work and careful study, but the rewards are great.
Peter Vanderschraaf's Strategic Justice is a brilliant and bold book ... He uses technical tools with expert precision leading to compelling philosophical conclusions. In short, Vanderschraaf's book is an example of PPE at its best.
Vanderschraaf sets out to develop an account of justice-as-convention, which is a form of justice-as-mutual-advantage. He certainly achieves this: the book provides a coherent and admirable account of why it is that rational agents might find it in their interest to share resources in an egalitarian fashion ... [this] is an important and impressive contribution to the literature on justice.
For twenty years, Peter Vanderschraaf has been writing important papers about conventions. His new book, Strategic Justice, synthesises this body of work and displays his ability to write both as a scholarly philosopher and as a rigorous game theorist.

Notă biografică

Peter P. Vanderschraaf is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science at the University of Arizona. He works in social philosophy and game theory. He has held visiting appointments at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Boston University, and the School of Social Sciences of the Institute for Advanced Study.