Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

Social conventions : from language to law / / Andrei Marmor



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Marmor Andrei Visualizza persona
Titolo: Social conventions : from language to law / / Andrei Marmor Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c2009
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (201 p.)
Disciplina: 323.01/4
Soggetto topico: Convention (Philosophy)
Social sciences - Philosophy
Language and languages - Philosophy
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Social conventions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-691-16223-9
1-282-45798-5
9786612457982
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828555403321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Princeton monographs in philosophy.