Explaining Norms

Description: Explaining Norms [Hardcover] Brennan, Geoffrey; Eriksson, Lina; Goodin, Robert E. and Southwood, Nicholas Product Overview Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive account of norms: what they are; how and why they emerge, persist and change; and how they work. Norms, they argue, should be understood in non-reductive terms as clusters of normative attitudes that serve the function of making us accountable to one another-- with the different kinds of norms (legal, moral, and social norms) differing in virtue of being constituted by different kinds of normative attitudes that serve to make us accountable in different ways. Explanations of and by norms should be seen as thoroughly pluralist in character. Explanations of norms should appeal to the ways that norms help us to pursue projects and goals, individually and collectively, as well as to enable us to constitute social meanings. Explanations by norms should recognise the multiplicity of ways in which norms may bear upon the actions we perform, the attitudes we form and the modes of deliberation in which we engage: following, merely conforming with, and even breaching norms. While advancing novel and distinctive positions on all of these topics, Explaining Norms will also serve as a sourcebook with a rich array of arguments and illustrations for others to reassemble in ways of their own choosing. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (November 15, 2013) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 302 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199654689 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 80 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inches Best Sellers Rank: #6,785,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #6,387 in Epistemology Philosophy #18,152 in Political Philosophy (Books) #23,489 in Philosophy of Ethics & Morality #6,387 in Epistemology Philosophy #18,152 in Political Philosophy (Books) We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.

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