Allan Gibbard

Matthew D. Adler () and John Weymark
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Matthew D. Adler: Duke Law School

A chapter in Conversations on Social Choice and Welfare Theory - Vol. 1, 2021, pp 171-207 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Allan Gibbard’s conversation begins with some biographical remarks. The importance of the moral philosopher Richard Brandt is emphasized as an early source of inspiration. Gibbard’s graduate studies at Harvard are recalled with special attention given to the Arrow-Rawls-Sen seminar. The transitivity of social preference and rights in social choice are discussed. Gibbard’s contributions to strategy-proof social choice (the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem), utilitarianism, causal decision theory, and meta-ethics are examined in some detail.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62769-0_11

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