David Gauthier
David Gauthier | |
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| Born | 10 September 1932 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | 9 November 2023 (aged 91) |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Toronto (B.A. (Hons.), 1954) Harvard University (A.M., 1955) University of Oxford (B.Phil., 1957; D.Phil., 1961) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic Contractarianism Contractarian ethics Classical liberalism |
| Main interests | Political philosophy, game theory, rational choice theory |
| Notable ideas | Contractarian ethics (morals by agreement), constrained maximization, Gauthier's Lockean proviso |
David Gauthier FRSC (/ˈɡɔːtieɪ/; 10 September 1932 – 9 November 2023) was a Canadian philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian or contractarian theory of morality, as developed in his 1986 book Morals by Agreement.