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Explaining Norms (Paperback)
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Explaining Norms (Paperback)
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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.
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