• Introduction by Barry Stroud


• Reconciling Our Aims


• I. Insight, Consistency, and Plans for Living


• II. Living Together: Economic and Moral Argument


• III. Common Goals and the Ideal Social Contract


• Appendix: The Harsanyi-like Result; Comments: Normative Thinking and Planning, Individual and Shared by Michael Bratman


• Comments on Allan Gibbard byJohn Broome


• Should You Save This Child? Gibbard on Intuitions, Contractualism, and Strains of Commitment by F. M. Kamm


• Reply to Commentators by Allan Gibbard


• Bibliography

Alan Gibbard is Richard Brandt University Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan
Barry Stroud is Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

In these three Tanner lectures, distinguished ethical theorist Allan Gibbard explores the nature of normative thought and the bases of ethics.