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Must Constrained Maximizers Be Uncharitable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Jordan Howard Sobel
Jordan Howard Sobel
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University of Toronto
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By his definition of them, David Gauthier's co-operative constrained maximizers are not necessarily unsharing and disposed to exclude straight maximizers from benefits of their co-operation. Here is Gauthier's full and exact account, his official account, of constrained maximization.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , Spring 1996 , pp. 241 - 254
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1996

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