Explaining Norms

by Robert E. Goodin, Lina Eriksson, Geoffrey Brennan, et al.

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198748205
• ISBN13: 9780198748205
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"