Social conventions : from language to law

Présentation de l'éditeur : "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, Andr...

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Main Author : Marmor Andrei (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Social conventions : from language to law / Andrei Marmor
Published : Princeton, N.J. [etc.] : Princeton University Press , C 2009
Physical Description : 1 vol. (XII-186 p.)
Series : Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
Subjects :
  • Chapter 1. A first look at the nature of conventions
  • Chapter 2. Constitutive conventions
  • Chapter 3. Deep conventions
  • Chapter 4. Conventions of language : semantics
  • Chapter 5. Conventions of language : pragmatics
  • Chapter 6. The morality of conventions
  • Chapter 7. The conventional foundations of law