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Nicholas Southwood
Introduction. Contractualism; Morality's foundations; Method; Outline -- The limits of Hobbesian contractualism. Gauthier's Hobbesian contractualism; The normativity objection; The impartiality objection; Summary -- The limits of Kantian contractualism. Scanlon's Kantian contractualism; The circularity objection; The non - fundamentality objection; Summary -- The structure of deliberative contractualism. Deliberative rationality; Inputs to deliberation; Output: a common code to live by; Inclusion broad and narrow; Summary -- The normativity of deliberative contractualism. Instrumentalism, substantivism, rational formalis; Deliberative citizenship and the interpersonal point of view; Relational formalism: reasons of deliberative citizenship; Answering the critics; Summary -- Getting morality right. Does deliberative contractualism get moarlity's intensional character right?; Does deliberative contractualism get morality's extensional character right?; Summary -- Grounding morality. Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily backwards?; Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily superseded?; Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily epiphenomenal?; Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily circular?; Is deliberative contractualism explanatorily non - fundamental?; Conclusion