TY  - GEN
T1  - Social conventions : from language to law
T2  - Princeton monographs in philosophy.
A1  - Marmor, Andrei
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn592756160
AB  - 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 diffe.
OP  - 186
CN  - B809.15 .M37 2009eb
SN  - 9781400831654
SN  - 1400831652
SN  - 0691140901
SN  - 9780691140902
KW  - Convention (Philosophy)
KW  - Social sciences : Philosophy.
KW  - Language and languages : Philosophy.
KW  - Convention (Philosophie)
KW  - Sciences sociales : Philosophie.
KW  - Langage et langues : Philosophie.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Civil Rights.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Freedom & Security : Human Rights.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Free Will & Determinism.
KW  - Language and languages : Philosophy
KW  - Social sciences : Philosophy
ER  -