DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25101490 ISSN: 0140-525X
The veil and the deal: Bargaining between case-specific solutions and unknown rules
Piotr BystranowskiAbstract
Levine et al.’s resource-rational contractualism omits how people decide that a situation demands rule-, not case-based, guidance. I propose that moral cognition first tags contexts as rule-governed, then either uncovers an existing norm or forges a plausible one. Coordination stakes and the private-public divide likely trigger this tag. Distinguishing discovery from invention invites targeted experiments and refines the framework.