LEADER 03962nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910780931603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-691-16223-9 010 $a1-282-45798-5 010 $a9786612457982 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400831654 035 $a(CKB)2550000000002377 035 $a(EBL)483568 035 $a(OCoLC)592756160 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342997 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11280682 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342997 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10288334 035 $a(PQKB)11327797 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC483568 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36597 035 $a(DE-B1597)446590 035 $a(OCoLC)979742013 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400831654 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL483568 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10435960 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245798 035 $a(PPN)265134110 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000002377 100 $a20090105d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSocial conventions$b[electronic resource] $efrom language to law /$fAndrei Marmor 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (201 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton monographs in philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14090-1 311 $a1-4008-3165-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPreface -- $tChapter One: A First Look at the Nature of Conventions -- $tChapter Two: Constitutive Conventions -- $tChapter Three: Deep Conventions -- $tChapter Four: Conventions of Language: Semantics -- $tChapter Five: Conventions of Language: Pragmatics -- $tChapter Six: The Morality of Conventions -- $tChapter Seven: The Conventional Foundations of Law -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSocial conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason, and in doing so challenges the dominant view of social conventions first laid out by David Lewis. Marmor begins by giving a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive conventions and between deep and surface conventions. He then applies this analysis to explain how conventions work in language, morality, and law. Marmor clearly demonstrates that many important semantic and pragmatic aspects of language assumed by many theorists to be conventional are in fact not, and that the role of conventions in the moral domain is surprisingly complex, playing mostly an auxiliary and supportive role. Importantly, he casts new light on the conventional foundations of law, arguing that the distinction between deep and surface conventions can be used to answer the prevalent objections to legal conventionalism. Social Conventions is a much-needed reappraisal of the nature of the rules that regulate virtually every aspect of human conduct. 410 0$aPrinceton monographs in philosophy. 606 $aConvention (Philosophy) 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy 615 0$aConvention (Philosophy) 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xPhilosophy. 676 $a323.01/4 700 $aMarmor$b Andrei$0728244 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780931603321 996 $aSocial conventions$93861204 997 $aUNINA