Social Conventions

From Language to Law

Andrei Marmor

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Princeton University Press
18 March 2014

Philosophy of language; Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Sociology: customs & traditions

Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy

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.

By: Andrei Marmor
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Volume: 41
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9780691162232
ISBN 10: 0691162239
Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 18 March 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments viiPreface ixChapter One: A First Look at the Nature of Conventions 1Chapter Two: Constitutive Conventions 31Chapter Three: Deep Conventions 58Chapter Four: Conventions of Language: Semantics 79Chapter Five: Conventions of Language: Pragmatics 106Chapter Six: The Morality of Conventions 131Chapter Seven: The Conventional Foundations of Law 155Bibliography 177Index 183

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.

Reviews for Social Conventions: From Language to Law

This timely monograph should stimulate further philosophical studies of conventions in general and of their various manifestations in human affairs. --Kevin Toh, Ethics