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	David Gauthier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Gauthier (born 1932) is a Canadian-American philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian social contract (contractarian) theory of morality, as laid out in his book Morals By Agreement.
		Gauthier was born in Toronto in 1932 and educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. Hons., 1954), Harvard University (A.M., 1955), and the University of Oxford (B. Phil., 1957; D. Phil., 1961).
		In addition to systematic work in moral theory, Gauthier's main philosophical interests are in the history of political philosophy, with special attention to Hobbes and Rousseau, and in the theory of practical rationality, where he begins from an attempt to understand economic rationality, rather than from Kantian or Aristotelian antecedents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Gauthier (1111 words)

	Part two: David Gauthier
		David Gauthier, disciple of Hobbes A prime example of the liberalism that seeks to ground itself in some conception of essence inherent in man is that of David Gauthier, who was a faithful disciple of Hobbes.
		Gauthier's example is just one representing the old flaws of liberalism in regard to the claim to universality, and will contrast and illuminate the new mistakes Richard Rorty makes when trying to avoid some of the old ones of Gauthier.
		Gauthier’s morals derived by agreement pervade the private life of liberal individuals, as well as of non-liberal individuals whose chosen way of life is supplanted by Gauthier’s "superior" one.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/1180/liberalism2.htm (880 words)

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		Gauthier has seen the claimant's level of depression change, frequently in response to stressors related to his medical treatment or the handling of his workers' compensation claim by the carrier.
		Gauthier opined that the earlier records showed a stage in the claimant's life that was irrelevant, as the claimant had clearly established a consistent working pattern and level of coping for the twelve or thirteen years that he worked at the employer.
		Gauthier's failure to diagnose the claimant correctly is troublesome in light of the length of the treatment, but not surprising in light of the apparent lack of success of the treatment.
	www.state.vt.us /labind/wcdecisions/1996/E5968stevens.txt (2613 words)

	Morality and The Market Place : The Ethics of David Gauthier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gauthier, however, believes that it is possible to explain social cooperation within the context of a view of human beings that is compatible with the assumptions of market economists and their philosophical offshoots.
		Gauthier, however, is not a nihilist and he wishes not to deny the existence of a sort of morality but to demonstrate how certain moral constraints might actually be in the interest of this type of radical individual.
		Gauthier, like free market economists, assumes that human beings are in some sense ideally rational, that they are free to identify their utilities as they please, and that they nearly have access to relevant information that will allow them to adopt appropriate strategies for realizing those utilities.
	www.journal.au.edu /abac_journal/dec98/article_james.html (7087 words)

	20th WCP: Partial Contractarianism and Moral Motivation
		For Gauthier, moral outcomes are utility maximising in conditions of scarcity, competition and where cooperation is likely to yield a surplus, and, importantly, where there exists a general disposition to cooperate.
		Gauthier attempts to accommodate this residue by attributing to his agents an ‘affective capacity' for morality, thereby discarding the ‘economic man' of the prisoners' dilemma and embracing the ‘liberal individual' (1986:330ff).
		Gauthier recognises, and indeed argues, that economic man, who in machine-like fashion chooses strictly in accord with the demands of utility maximisation, fails the test of moral agency.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/TEth/TEthVoic.htm (2875 words)

	Contractarianism
		Hypothetical contract contractarians such as Gauthier counter that the point of the contract device is not to directly bind the contractors, but rather to provide a kind of thought experiment by which to discover the requirements of practical rationality.
		According to Gauthier, moral constraint on the pursuit of individual self-interest is required because cooperative activities almost inevitably involve a prisoner's dilemma: a situation in which the best individual outcomes can be had by those who cheat on the agreement while the others keep their part of the bargain.
		Gauthier argues that it is the outcome that minimizes the maximum relative concessions of each party to the bargain.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/contractarianism (2837 words)

	Metal and Nonmetal Mine Fatal Accident Investigation Report: Fatality #2 - January 21, 2000 - Machinery - Mill - ...
		David A. Gauthier, contractor shift superintendent, age 56, was fatally injured when he was struck by a dust collector that fell approximately 80 feet from a building undergoing demolition.
		Gauthier worked at building 35 where he operated a metal shear removing steel and debris.
		Gauthier walked a short distance to the side of the excavator and Croniser waited for him to give the thumbs up signal at which time he turned his attention to the decking.
	www.msha.gov /FATALS/2000/FTL00M02.HTM (1896 words)

	Game Theory and Ethics
		Gauthier's moral theory, “morals by agreement” (Gauthier 1986), is a theory about the nature and rationality of morality.
		Gauthier's response to this is to argue that we misconceive practical rationality, even instrumental rationality, if we think the aim of rationality determines in any straightforward way the manner in which we should reason or deliberate.
		Gauthier's discussion in Morals by Agreement is conducted in terms of “dispositions to choose” and specifically of “constrained maximization”, the disposition to cooperate with other cooperators even in circumstances where defecting is more advantageous.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/game-ethics (6488 words)

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		Gauthier was asked what led him to bring his action (Case on Appeal, at pp. 483-84): R.I don't really know who it was who finally got me going like to take the proceedings.
		Gauthier stated that he was not afraid of the respondent officers even though his address had been recited in their presence (Case on Appeal, at pp. 475 and 479).
		Gauthier referred to the police protection he received when testifying at the Police Commission's inquiry, what he said suggests that his fear was more reasoned than insurmountable.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /csc-scc/en/pub/1998/vol2/texte/1998scr2_0003.txt (18626 words)

	Campus News - Noteworthy - Posted November 20, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		David Gauthier is presented the 2004 Prairie Conservation Award by past award winner Greg Riemer.
		David Gauthier, executive director of the Canadian Plains Research Center and geography professor, was presented with the Prairie Conservation Award at the 7th Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Conservation Conference Awards Banquet in Calgary, Alta., Feb. 28, 2004.
		In accepting the award, Gauthier stated that "...special recognition is particularly due to the University of Regina and the Faculty of Arts for providing the home base for my research over the past 19 years and for their enduring and enriching commitment to fostering a supportive environment for multi-disciplinary research.
	www.uregina.ca /news/noteworthy/mar09_04.shtml (544 words)

	CPRC's Mandate and Aims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gauthier thanked Saskatchewan Culture, Youth and Recreation for their sponsorship of this award.
		David Gauthier is unique in that he has engaged at all three levels.
		David's contributions have been wide in scope from ecosystem classifications, protected area mapping and information bases, indicators and reporting, monitoring, policy analysis, education and outreach, community analysis and research.
	www.cprc.ca /whatnew.html (2732 words)

	David Gauthier Bibliography
		David Gauthier and Robert Sugden (Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993), 24-40.
		David Gauthier and Robert Sugden (Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993), 176-193
		David Gauthier and Robert Sugden Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993.
	www.againstpolitics.com /david_gauthier/gauthier_bibliography.html (1016 words)

	David Gauthier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stéphane introduced David to me at a jazz gig that they were in 2002.
		David is one of the nicest guy to be around with and he is an amazing guitar player.
		David is currently working in several music projects with Robin Boulianne.
	www.unicornrecords.com /addisonproject/dgauthier.htm (58 words)

	Review of Morals by Agreement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gauthier starts by drawing a connection between the suboptimal outcome of the famous Prisoner's Dilemma of game theory, and the suboptimal outcome of a market afflicted by externalities.
		Gauthier himself doesn't seem to be any kind of fervent libertarian, though, and libertarians who eagerly delve into his work may find a few puzzling dissonances.
		In discussing the market, Gauthier seems to be so impressed with how the system functions despite the intense competition between seller and seller (and between buyer and buyer) that he overlooks the cooperation that is both routine and necessary for the market's existence.
	www.idiom.com /~arkuat/meme/gauthier.html (2135 words)

	About the Park
		Jean Gauthier had been on the board of directors of Shannonville for 5 years, from 1988 til 1992.
		Gauthier built a link between the Nelson and Fabi track, creating the Pro track.
		Gauthier has also enlarged the Fabi pits and the entrance to the pits.
	www.reach.net /~smprace/park.htm (762 words)

	'Disabled Lives' commentary - Ragged Edge v 2001 no. 4
		Both Gauthier's and Rawls' reasoning leads one to conclude is that persons with disabilities cannot be free, equal, and independent.
		Gauthier, Rawls and Nussbaum are all making moral judgments about people with disabilities: we have no place in society so we should not exist.
		David Pfeiffer is Resident Scholar at the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
	www.ragged-edge-mag.com /0901/0901pfeiffer.htm (1077 words)

	David Gauthier
		Since this biographical note Gauthier has published a collection of pre-"Morals by Agreement" essays called "Moral Dealing: Contract, Ethics and Reason" (Cornell University Press, 1990) and a collection of historical essays on Jean Jacques Rousseau called "The Social and the Solitary" (Cambridge University Press) is scheduled to be published in 2003.
		David Gauthier was born in Toronto in 1932 and educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. Hons., 1954), Harvard University (A.M., 1955), and the University of Oxford (B. Phil., 1957; D. Phil., 1961).
		Published in "Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement", ed.
	www.againstpolitics.com /david_gauthier (457 words)

	Gauthier, Mary Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ink 19: Mary Gauthier - David Whited in conversation with Texas singer / songwriter Mary Gauthier.
		Winnipeg Sun: Mary Gauthier - Rocky road - Songwriter Mary Gauthier reworks her dark past into mesmerizing country music.
		This chick came downstairs with a sign around Gauthier, Mary "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Bands_and_Artists_G_Gauthier,_Mary.html (1839 words)

	Contractarianism and Rational Choice - Cambridge University Press
		David Gauthier’s Morals by Agreement (1986) is the most complete and suggestive contractarian theory of morality since the work of Rawls.
		In this anthology a number of prominent moral and political philosophers offer a critical assessment of Gauthier’s theory and its three main projects: developing a contractarian foundation for morality, defending a theory of rational choice, and supporting the claim that rationality requires one to keep one’s agreements.
		Gauthier on distributive justice and the natural baseline Jan Narveson; 10.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521391342&print=y (350 words)

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		David Wick’s work within the business world, extensive international experience, dedication to Pathways To Peace and deep insight have inspired him to co-create the PeaceBuilding.Com website.
		At Sun Microsystems, David was a Senior Training Project Manager and Consultant in the SunU Workgroup Solutions Dept. He pioneered organization learning and leveraged this experience into the groundbreaking Java Migration Team Website.
		David is also assisting the birth of a, soon to be published, best selling novel.
	www.peacebuilding.com /who_we_are.html (1817 words)

	Contemporary conceptions of liberalism (Joseph Raz, John Rawls, David Gauthier).
		This dissertation provides a critical comparison of three liberal theories of recent issue, the theories of Joseph Raz, John Rawls and David Gauthier.
		It explains how each theory takes a distinct approach in presenting the idea of a just liberal society; and how these different approaches stem from contrasting conceptions of practical reason and of the structure and content of a conception of the good as individual autonomy.
		By contrast, Gauthier presents a market conception of liberal society that is grounded in the individualistic preference-based assumptions of rational choice theory; given these assumptions, the conceptual basis of a liberal political framework is presented as a rational compromise motivated only by mutually disinterested preferences-hence a want-regarding modus vivendi.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9913501 (332 words)

	SSRN-Why do Libertarians Love Proportionate Taxation? The Case of David Gauthier's 'Morals by Agreement' by Barbara ...
		Focusing on the version of the argument developed in David Gauthier's Morals by Agreement, the article concludes that rather than leading to proportionate taxation, Gauthier's complicated formula for dividing social surplus (a variant of the Nash bargaining solution) at first cut leads to a tax scheme even more regressive than a head tax.
		Gauthier appears to conclude otherwise because he gets the implications of declining marginal utility of income for Nash-type bargaining solutions exactly backwards.
		In light of the difficulty of deriving proportionate taxation from Gauthier's premises, the article concludes that Gauthier's attraction to proportionality seems to be driven less by his premises than by the conclusion itself.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=232641 (431 words)

	David Gauthier Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	Hume Bibliography
		Gauthier, David, ‘Three against Justice: The Foole, the Sensible Knave, and the Lydian Shepherd’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy VII (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1982), pp.
		Gauthier, David, “Artificial Virtues and the Sensible Knave,” Hume Studies 18, no. 2 (Nov. 1992), pp.
		McCracken, D.J., ‘David Hume and the Sentiment of Humanity’, Actes du XI Congress International de Philosophie, 8 (1953), pp.
	www.unc.edu /~gsmunc/Hume/Biblio.htm (969 words)

	FIRST VOLUNTEER AB-DAR INSPECTION COMPLETED
		David Faile, left, receives his airworthiness certificate after his RV-6 successfully passed the first volunteer AB-DAR inspection on March 4, performed by Joe Gauthier (right).
		Joe Gauthier, who was designated an AB-DAR under the new program, inspected an RV-6 built by David Faile, EAA and NAFI member, master flight instructor, and professional pilot from Fairfield, Connecticut.
		Gauthier and David Jackson were my counselors," said Faile, who himself is both a TC and FA.
	www.eaa.org /communications/eaanews/040304_abdar_inspection.html (759 words)

	David Gauthier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		David Gauthier -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Gauthier takes (The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable) value as a matter of individuals' (Click link for more info and facts about subjective) subjective preferences, and argues that moral constraints on straightforward utility-maximizing are (Click link for more info and facts about prudentially) prudentially justified.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/D/Da/David_Gauthier.htm (515 words)

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