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The Emergence of Norms

By Edna Ullmann-Margalit

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0198729383, 9780198729389
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7076808 bytes)
Series
Claredon Library of Logic and Philosophy
Edition
1
Pages
224\221
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-12-12 14:30:05
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Description

Edna Ullmann-Margalit provides an original account of the emergence of norms. Her main thesis is that certain types of norms are possible solutions to problems posed by certain types of social interaction situations. The problems are such that they inhere in the structure (in the game-theoretical sense of structure) of the situations concerned. Three types of paradigmatic situations are dealt with. They are referred to as Prisoners' Dilemma-type situations; co-ordination situations; and inequality (or partiality) situations. Each of them, it is claimed, poses a basic difficulty, to some or all of the individuals involved in them. Three types of norms, respectively, are offered as solutions to these situational problems. It is shown how, and in what sense, the adoption of these norms of social behaviour can indeed resolve the specified problems.

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