DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25101532 ISSN: 0140-525X
The missing moral content in contractarian models
Susheel Kaushik Rompikuntla, Revati ShivnekarAbstract
This commentary critiques the target article’s conflation of contractarianism and contractualism, arguing it overlooks how moral standards influence reasoning in bargaining. We propose integrating standards of fairness and individual differences into agreement-based models of moral cognition, arguing that principles of fairness and justification that go beyond strategic self-interest are indispensable in explaining moral judgments and decisions in asymmetric interactions.