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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 com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marmor, Andrei
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Princeton monographs in philosophy.
Temas:
Convention (Philosophy)
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Convention (Philosophie)
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Langage et langues > Philosophie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
PHILOSOPHY > Free Will & Determinism.
Language and languages > Philosophy
Social sciences > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 diffe.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 186 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400831654
1400831652

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