Convention: a philosophical study

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Résumé : "Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions are contrasted with other kinds of regularity, and conventions governing systems of communication are given spe…

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Full title :Convention : a philosophical study / David Lewis.

Summary

Résumé : "Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions are contrasted with other kinds of regularity, and conventions governing systems of communication are given special attention."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2002.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Blackwell Publishers
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2002.

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Note : Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 7 févr. 2018).

Note : "First published 1969 by Harvard University Press. First published in paperback 1986 by Basil Blackwell Ltd. Reissued 2002 by Blackwell Publishers. Transferred to digital print 2007."

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Description:1 ressource en ligne (xii, 213 pages)

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ISBN:9780470692967, 0470692960, 0631232567, 9780631232568
oclc:on1136885508
LC Classification:B809.15
Dewey Decimal:149.94

I Coordination and Convention -- Sample Coordination Problems -- Analysis of Coordination Problems -- Solving Coordination Problems -- Convention -- Sample Conventions -- II Convention Refined -- Common Knowledge -- Knowledge of Conventions -- Alternatives to Conventions -- Degrees of Convention -- Consequences of Conventions -- III Convention Contrasted -- Agreement -- Social Contracts -- Norms -- Rules -- Conformative Behavior -- Imitation -- IV Convention and Communication -- Sample Signals -- Analysis of Signaling -- Verbal Signaling -- Conventional Meaning of Signals -- Meaning of Signals -- V Conventions of Language -- Possible Languages -- Grammars -- Semantics in a Possible Language -- Conventions of Truthfulness -- Semantics in a Population -- Conclusion.