Social conventions : from language to law /

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 com...

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Hlavní autor: Marmor, Andrei
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Edice:Princeton monographs in philosophy.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=305776
Obsah:
  • A first look at the nature of conventions
  • Constitutive conventions
  • Deep conventions
  • Conventions of language : semantics
  • Conventions of language : pragmatics
  • The morality of conventions
  • The conventional foundations of law.