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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy Jackson, Frank visiting Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University and at La Trobe University Smith, Michael Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University Print publication date: 2007 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-923476-9 Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009
10 The Feasibility Issue doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199234769.003.0010 Geoffrey Brennan Philip Pettit Abstract: Introduction – Philosophy and Ideal Theory – Economics and Incentive-Compatibility – A Philosophical Objection – An Empirical Objection – Virtue-Friendly Incentives – Conclusion Keywords: empirical, philosophy, theory, virtue,	Related Content in OHO 'Marxism and the Status of Critique' in The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy 'Feminist Philosophy of Biology' in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology 'National Autonomy' in The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics 'International Economic Justice' in The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics
Philip Pettit is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. Geoffrey Brennan is Professor in the Social and Political Theory Group, Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University, and holds a part-time joint position in the Political Science Department at Duke University and thePhilosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.	Geoffrey Brennan The Economy of Esteem in OSO Find in OUP journals External web page Philip Pettit Republicanism in OSO Rules, Reasons, and Norms in OSO The Common Mind in OSO The Economy of Esteem in OSO Find in OUP journals External web page