Explaining norms

Explaining norms / Geoffrey Brennan, Lina Eriksson, Robert E. Goodin, and Nicholas Southwood.

Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In 'Explaining Norms', four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive account of norms: what they are; how and why they emerge, persist and change; and how the...

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Other Authors: Brennan, Geoffrey, 1944-, Eriksson, Lina, Goodin, Robert E., Southwood, Nicholas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Norm (Philosophy)
Social norms.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introducing norms
  • Part I. Explaining the nature of norms. 2. Norms
  • 3. Formal and non-formal norms
  • 4. Moral and social norms
  • Part II. Explaining the emergence, persistence, and change of norms. 5. Patterns of emergence, persistence, and change
  • 6. Rational reconstruction
  • 7. Social meaning
  • 8. Bad norms
  • Part III. Explaining with norms. 9. Norm following
  • 10. Norm conforming
  • 11. Norm breaching
  • 12. Attitudes and modes of deliberation
  • 13. Conclusions.

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