Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality

Contractualism as a moral theory understands the rightness and wrongness of our conduct by reference to some actual or hypothetical agreement. In this book, Nicholas Southwood aims to assess contractualism as an account of the foundations or ultimate grounds of morality. While sceptical about the way contractualism has typically been developed, he proposes a novel "deliberative" version of contractualism, which he argues has the resources to offer an attractive and compelling account of morality's foundations.