Michael Moehler is a contemporary political philosopher specializing in contractarianism, rational choice theory, and the foundations of morality. He is best known for developing a multilevel social contract theory that attempts to ground minimal moral norms in conditions of deep value pluralism. His work interrogates the limits of classical Hobbesian and Rawlsian frameworks by attending to the strategic and rational constraints real agents face.
Developed a 'minimal morality' contractarian framework for agents with deeply divergent values
Authored Minimal Morality: A Multilevel Social Contract Theory (2018, Oxford University Press)
Identified structural limitations of segmented choice procedures in standard contractualist models
Extended Hobbesian contractarianism to account for modern conditions of moral and cultural pluralism
Contributed to debates on the relationship between rational choice theory and moral normativity
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