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Social Conventions: From Language to Law
Andrei Marmor
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Description for Social Conventions: From Language to Law
Hardback. Offers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason. This work gives a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive conventions and between deep and surface conventions. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPQ; HPS; JHBT. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 380.
Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason, and in doing so challenges the dominant view of social conventions first laid out by David Lewis. Marmor begins by giving a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive ... Read more
Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason, and in doing so challenges the dominant view of social conventions first laid out by David Lewis. Marmor begins by giving a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691140902
SKU
V9780691140902
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About Andrei Marmor
Andrei Marmor is the Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law and a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. His books include "Law in the Age of Pluralism and Interpretation and Legal Theory".
Reviews for Social Conventions: From Language to Law
"This is certainly an important addition to this rather narrow body of academic scholarship."
Choice "Social Conventions is an important contribution to scholars from at least two disciplines
philosophy and law... [T]his book should interest anyone wanting to gain a better and deeper understanding of human linguistic and moral behavior."
Dana Riesenfeld, Pragmatics Cognition "This timely monograph should stimulate further philosophical studies of ... Read more
Choice "Social Conventions is an important contribution to scholars from at least two disciplines
philosophy and law... [T]his book should interest anyone wanting to gain a better and deeper understanding of human linguistic and moral behavior."
Dana Riesenfeld, Pragmatics Cognition "This timely monograph should stimulate further philosophical studies of ... Read more