Pedro Francés-Gómez

University of Granada | UGR · Departamento de Filosofía I

We present an experiment that sets up a context of production of a common output obtained by using production means that are randomly and unequally distributed. Before the production phase, subjects must choose a distributive principle for the output division, under ignorance of the allocation of the production means. Subsequently, they make a dist...

This chapter focuses on the moral legitimacy of corporations as a key element of a sustainable economy. In particular, the chapter explores the prospects of a liberal principle of corporate legitimacy. The liberal principle for corporate legitimacy draws upon Rawls’s liberal principle of political legitimacy as stated in Political Liberalism. The p...

Responsible diversity management is a corporate strategy aimed at developing and integrating cultural, ethnic, religious, social, sexual orientation, age and migratory heterogeneity, which is increasingly important in modern organizations. Specifically, this diversity management entails implementing internal corporate social responsibility policies...

Lorenzo Sacconi and his coauthors have put forward the hypothesis that impartial agreements on distributive rules may generate a conditional preference for conformity. The observable effect of this preference would be compliance with fair distributive rules chosen behind a veil of ignorance, even in the absence of external coercion. This paper uses...

The Rawlsian social contract presents the veil of ignorance as a thought experiment that should induce agents to behave more fairly within a distributive context. This study uses a laboratory experiment to test the effect of actual reasoning behind the veil, as a moral cue, in a Dictator Game with taking and production. The main hypothesis claims t...

En "Los diálogos de paz en Colombia. Una mirada desde la justicia del resarcimiento" se sostiene que el acuerdo sobre el fin del conflicto celebrado entre el Gobierno de Colombia y las FARC no reporta ninguna utilidad social; especialmente por la absoluta impunidad que conlleva la Justicia Transicional. Se le tacha de ser un pacto "utilitario", es...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the psychological strategies as well as the rhetorical and discursive arguments developed in organizations and by individuals when they have to cope with the paradoxes and changes related to CSR. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the perspective of the paradox as an analytical framework t...

Tras cuatro años de negociación, el Gobierno Colombiano y las FARC-EP acordaron terminar el conflicto armado interno más largo de América Latina y crearon mecanismos de Justicia Transicional, como la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, con el fin de juzgar y castigar a quienes cometieron delitos en el conflicto armado con sanciones no necesariamente...

Reseña del Volumen VI de Seudología, de Miguel Catalán.

We advance the thesis that the method of experimental economics can make significant contributions to normative, as opposed to descriptive, business ethics. We contend that there are two basic ways in which experimental economics may make this contribution, and we exemplify these ways by pointing to experimental support of social contract theory as...

This paper aims at discussing the role of behavioral business ethics as a methodological approach that is valuable for the construction of a robust normative foundation for business ethics. In particular, we will focus on experiments – and, to a lesser extent, surveys, field research, and even the study of cognitive and neural mechanisms – as a res...

Lorenzo Sacconi’s recent re-statement of his social contract account of business ethics is a major contribution to our understanding of the normative nature of CSR as the expression of a fair multi-party agreement supported by the economic rationality of each participant. However, at one crucial point in his theory, Sacconi introduces the concept o...

Lorenzo Sacconi''s The Social Contract of the Firm (Berlin, Springer, 2000) is a major contribution to the normative theory of the firm. It contains a full-fledged contractarian explanation of the role of Corporate Codes of Ethics. Sacconi proposes a game-theoretical model of the normative structure of the firm, including explicit and implicit cont...

A proper understanding of the role and meaning of the system for the ethical management of organizations that we will be presenting requires a brief account of the current state of development of the ethical awareness in Spanish organizations, as well as among Spanish academics.

A review of the intellectual path that led David P. Gauthier to the publication of Morals by Agreement in 1986.

The appearance of the following pages might suggest an "intellectual biography". My purpose is not, though, to offer such a simple thing (interesting as it might be). Indeed, I would like to follow the evolution of Gauthier's thought not only to show how a thinker evolved from a particular view about a particular problem toward a quite original and...

Este trabajo tiene como objetivo responder a las críticas al liberalismo formuladas en un reciente trabajo de Carlos Kohn. Para mostrar esto expondré, en primer lugar, por qué pienso que Kohn generaliza ilegítimamente una concepción bastante estrecha de liberalismo, relacionada con la economía. En segundo lugar, por qué pienso que Kohn generaliza i...

La tesis presenta la filosofía moral de David Gauthier, como paradigma del contractualismo liberal contemporáneo, en su contexto histórico y sistemático y, mediante el examen de los supuestos básicos de la teoría y la critica de sus argumentos centrales, analiza sus posibilidades como modelo de justificación moral en una sociedad liberal. Entre las...