Contractualism, Complaints, and Risk

Bastian Steuwer

doi:https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v19i2.1024

Volume 19, Number 2
February 2021

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Contractualism, Complaints, and Risk

Volume 19, Number 2, February 2021, Pages 111–147

https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v19i2.1024

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Abstract

How should contractualists assess the permissibility of risky actions? Both main views on the question, ex ante and ex post, fail to distinguish between different kinds of risk. In this article, I argue that this overlooks a third alternative that I call “objective ex ante contractualism.” Objective ex ante contractualism substitutes discounting complaints by epistemic risk in favor of discounting by objective risk. I further argue in favor of this new view. Objective ex ante contractualism provides the best model of justifiability to each.

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