Social conventions : from language to law

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marmor, Andrei
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Series:Princeton monographs in philosophy.
Subjects:
Convention (Philosophy)
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Social sciences > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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