Description
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in social life and practical reason. This work gives a general account of the nature of conventions, explaining the differences between coordinative and constitutive conventions and between deep and surface conventions.
Trade Review"This is certainly an important addition to this rather narrow body of academic scholarship."--Choice "Social Conventions is an important contribution to scholars from at least two disciplines--philosophy and law... [T]his book should interest anyone wanting to gain a better and deeper understanding of human linguistic and moral behavior."--Dana Riesenfeld, Pragmatics Cognition "This timely monograph should stimulate further philosophical studies of conventions in general and of their various manifestations in human affairs."--Kevin Toh, Ethics
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface ix Chapter One: A First Look at the Nature of Conventions 1 Chapter Two: Constitutive Conventions 31 Chapter Three: Deep Conventions 58 Chapter Four: Conventions of Language: Semantics 79 Chapter Five: Conventions of Language: Pragmatics 106 Chapter Six: The Morality of Conventions 131 Chapter Seven: The Conventional Foundations of Law 155 Bibliography 177 Index 183
