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UNINA9910457007203321 |
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Autore |
Marmor Andrei |
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Titolo |
Social conventions [[electronic resource] ] : from language to law / / Andrei Marmor |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-691-16223-9 |
1-282-45798-5 |
9786612457982 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Collana |
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Princeton monographs in philosophy |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Convention (Philosophy) |
Social sciences - Philosophy |
Language and languages - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason, and in doing so challenges the dominant view of social conventions first laid out by David Lewis. Marmor begins by giving a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive conventions and between deep and surface conventions. He then applies this analysis to explain how |
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