Social Conventions (ebook)

Argumento de Social Conventions (ebook)

"This timely monograph should stimulate further philosophical studies of conventions in general and of their various manifestations in human affairs."--Kevin Toh, Ethics

"This book will be of great philosophical interest, especially to social and legal philosophers. Marmor's view is original and represents an important alternative to the dominant (Lewisian) conception of social conventions. He sketches his theory on a large canvas and applies it to several different areas of social life. He writes with admirable clarity, directness, and simplicity."--Gerald Postema, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

"This book develops and applies a general theory of social conventions, then employs it to answer questions about the role of convention in language, morality, and law. Marmor's conclusions are noteworthy not only for the light they shed on the conventions found in these areas, but also for the claim that some linguistic and moral phenomena deemed conventional by other writers do not, in fact, have this status."--Christopher McMahon, University of California, Santa Barbar

"Social Conventions is an important contribution to scholars from at least two disciplines--philosophy and law. . . . [T]his book should interest anyone wanting to gain a better and deeper understanding of human linguistic and moral behavior."--Dana Riesenfeld, Pragmatics Cognition

"This is certainly an important addition to this rather narrow body of academic scholarship."--Choice0Acknowledgments vii
Preface ix
Chapter One: A First Look at the Nature of Conventions 1
Chapter Two: Constitutive Conventions 31
Chapter Three: Deep Conventions 58
Chapter Four: Conventions of Language: Semantics 79
Chapter Five: Conventions of Language: Pragmatics 106
Chapter Six: The Morality of Conventions 131
Chapter Seven: The Conventional Foundations of Law 155
Bibliography 177
Index 183