The Emergence of Norms

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-872938-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ullmann-Margalit, Edna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- I: Aim and Method

- II: PD Norms

- III: Co-ordination Norms

- IV: Norms of Partiality

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Ullmann-Margalit was Professor of Education at the Hebrew Universiy of Jerusalem.