The Emergence of Norms (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) - Hardcover

Ullmann-Margalit, Edna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198244118 ISBN 13: 9780198244110

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1977

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Reseña del editor

This book provides an account of the emergence of norms. Put very crudely, the main thesis of this book 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.

Biografía del autor

Edna Ullmann-Margalit, formerly Hebrew University of Jerusalem Professor Ullmann-Margalit was Professor of Education at the Hebrew Universiy of Jerusalem.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0198244118
• ISBN 13: 9780198244110
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224