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After Virtue
Agency (philosophy)
Ambiguity
Arbitrariness
Author_Andrei Marmor
Basic norm
Buck passing
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Common law
Consequentialism
Consideration
Convention (norm)
Conventionalism
Crime
Criticism
Critique
Deem (law)
Deliberation
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Essentially contested concept
Explanation
Family resemblance
Form of life (philosophy)
Freedom of speech
Genre
Implicature
Individuation
Inference
Instance (computer science)
Institution
Irony
J. L. Austin
Jargon
Moral relativism
Morality
Natural kind
Natural language
New riddle of induction
Norm (social)
Notation
Performative utterance
Philosophical analysis
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of law
Platitude
Politeness
Practical reason
Precedent
Presupposition
Principle of charity
Relativism
Religious symbolism
Rights
Rudeness
Rule of recognition
Secure communication
Social Practice
Social reality
Sources of law
Speech act
State of affairs (sociology)
Suggestion
Tacit knowledge
Taking Rights Seriously
The Concept of Law
The Philosopher
Theory
Thought
Underdetermination
Understanding
Utterance
Vagueness
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
Product details
- ISBN 9780691140902
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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.
Andrei Marmor is the Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law and a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. His books include "Law in the Age of Pluralism and Interpretation and Legal Theory".
