Social Conventions (eBook)

From Language to Law

Andrei Marmor (Autor)

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2009
200 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3165-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.7.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: After Virtue • Agency (philosophy) • Ambiguity • arbitrariness • Basic norm • Buck Passing • Civility • Common Law • Concept • Consequentialism • Consideration • Conventionalism • Convention (norm) • Crime • Criticism • critique • cultural relativism • Deem (law) • Deliberation • dichotomy • Dress Code • essentially contested concept • Etiquette • Explanation • false advertising • Family resemblance • Figure of Speech • Form of life (philosophy) • freedom of speech • Genre • grammar • Habituation • illocutionary act • implicature • Individuation • inference • Instance (computer science) • Institution • Intention (criminal law) • interaction • interdependence • Irony • Jargon • J. L. Austin • Joseph Raz • Legal culture • Legal Positivism • Legislation • linguistic description • Logic • Moral Character • Morality • Moral Relativism • Natural kind • natural language • New riddle of induction • Norm (social) • Notation • performative utterance • philosophical analysis • Philosophy of Language • Philosophy of Law • Platitude • Politeness • Positivism • Practical reason • Pragmatics • Precedent • Presupposition • Principle of charity • Racism • Relativism • Religious symbolism • rights • rudeness • Rule of Recognition • secure communication • Semantics • Sharia • Social Criticism • Social Practice • Social reality • Sources of law • Speech Act • State of affairs (sociology) • Suggestion • Summa Theologica • Tacit Knowledge • Taking Rights Seriously • The Concept of Law • theory • The Philosopher • Thought • Underdetermination • Underpinning • Understanding • utterance • vagueness • Value (ethics) • Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3165-2 / 1400831652
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3165-4 / 9781400831654