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"Contractualism" published on by Oxford University Press.

This Element begins by describing T.M. Scanlon's contractualism according to which an action is right when it is authorised by the moral principles no one could reasonably reject. This view has argued to have implausible consequences with regards to how different-sized groups, non-human animals, and cognitively limited human beings should be treated. It has also been accused of being theoretically redundant and unable to vindicate the so-called deontic distinctions. I then distinguish between the general contractualist framework and Scanlon's version of contractualism. I explain how the general framework enables us to formulate many other versions of contractualism some of which can already be found in the literature. Understanding contractualism in this new way enables us both to understand the structural similarities and differences between different versions of contractualism and also to see the different objections to contractualism as internal debates about which version of contractualism is correct.

With an introduction to Scanlon's ideas on contractualism by the editor, this collection of essays offers a range of views on Scanlon's book What We Owe to Each Other and the field of contractualist ethics.

Introduction : Scanlons contractualism / Matt Matravers -- Scanlon and reasons / Sarah Marshall -- The magic in the pronoun my / Susan Mendus -- Contractualism, spare wheel, aggregation / Brad Hooker -- Responsibility and choice / Matt Matravers -- Promises and perlocutions / Michael Pratt -- Contractualism and the virtues / Jonathan Wolff

Alford reviews 'The New Contractualism?' edited by Glyn Davis, Barbara Sullivan and Anna Yeatman.

The author insists that, within contemporary theory, common division of
social contract tradition on ?Hobbesian? and ?Kantian? line of thought is
entirely justified. Analyzing the theories of David Gauthier and Thomas
Scanlon, he also indicates the important difference between ?moral? and
?political? dimension of the idea of social contract. Finally, he rejects
recent attempts of identifying contractualism with constructivism.

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