T. M. Scanlon

T. M. Scanlon is an American moral philosopher at Harvard whose contractualism grounds morality in principles that no one could reasonably reject.

Scanlon's contractualism, developed in What We Owe to Each Other, holds that an act is morally wrong if it violates a principle that no one could reasonably reject as a basis for general agreement; this grounds morality in interpersonal justifiability rather than welfare maximization.