T. M. Scanlon

ThinkersBorn 1940Moral philosopher

Works

  • Contractualism and Utilitarianism, in Utilitarianism and Beyond, edited by Amartya Sen and Bernard Williams, Cambridge University Press, 1982

In Thinking Tools

Known for

A Harvard moral philosopher whose contractualism holds that an act is wrong if it would be disallowed by principles that no one could reasonably reject, a view he developed fully in What We Owe to Each Other.

Tools that draw on T. M. Scanlon (1)

Back to the thinkers