{"product_id":"social-conventions-from-language-to-law-paperback","title":"Social Conventions: From Language to Law - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrei Marmor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSocial Conventions\u003c\/i\u003e is a much-needed reappraisal of the nature of the rules that regulate virtually every aspect of human conduct.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book will be of great philosophical interest, especially to social and legal philosophers. Marmor's view is original and represents an important alternative to the dominant (Lewisian) conception of social conventions. He sketches his theory on a large canvas and applies it to several different areas of social life. He writes with admirable clarity, directness, and simplicity.\"\u003cb\u003e--Gerald Postema, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book develops and applies a general theory of social conventions, then employs it to answer questions about the role of convention in language, morality, and law. Marmor's conclusions are noteworthy not only for the light they shed on the conventions found in these areas, but also for the claim that some linguistic and moral phenomena deemed conventional by other writers do not, in fact, have this status.\"\u003cb\u003e--Christopher McMahon, University of California, Santa Barbar\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrei Marmor\u003c\/b\u003e is the Maurice Jones Jr. Professor of Law and a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. His books include \u003ci\u003eLaw in the Age of Pluralism and Interpretation and Legal Theory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47452220358834,"sku":"9780691162232","price":42.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/070d080cfaad4bf6d15c47de5b405e0a.webp?v=1778811125","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/social-conventions-from-language-to-law-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}