Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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

"Social Conventions is an important contribution to scholars from at least two disciplines--philosophy and law. . . . [T]his book should interest anyone wanting to gain a better and deeper understanding of human linguistic and moral behavior."---Dana Riesenfeld, Pragmatics Cognition
"This is certainly an important addition to this rather narrow body of academic scholarship." * Choice *
"This timely monograph should stimulate further philosophical studies of conventions in general and of their various manifestations in human affairs."---Kevin Toh, Ethics