Social Conventions : : From Language to Law / / Andrei Marmor.

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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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Monographs in Philosophy ; 25
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Chapter One: A First Look at the Nature of Conventions
  • Chapter Two: Constitutive Conventions
  • Chapter Three: Deep Conventions
  • Chapter Four: Conventions of Language: Semantics
  • Chapter Five: Conventions of Language: Pragmatics
  • Chapter Six: The Morality of Conventions
  • Chapter Seven: The Conventional Foundations of Law
  • Bibliography
  • Index