The Emergence of Norms
Author(s): Edna Ullmann-Margalit (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: April 1, 2015
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0198729383
- ISBN-13: 9780198729389
Book 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. She presents illuminating discussions of Prisoners' Dilemma, co-ordination, and inequality (or partiality) situations.
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Review
"A brilliant, timeless, and pathbreaking book, one of the classics of the last hundred years of social theory. Ullmann-Margalit helps explain what makes social organization possible - and why inequality arises and persists. Indispensable reading, full of implications for economics, philosophy, law, psychology, and sociology - and public policy as well." --Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University "[Ullmann-Margalit's] lucidly presented thesis will be of interest to moral and political philosophers ... clear and detailed at every point." --G. R. Grice, Philosophy "a book with arguments and ideas deserving of close attention from moral philosophers, political philosophers, philosophers of social science, and the social scientists themselves ... a sophisticated and sustained argument." --Lanning Sowden, The Philosophical Quarterly
From the Publisher
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, formerly Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Ullmann-Margalit was Professor of Education at the Hebrew Universiy of Jerusalem.
About the Author
Edna Ullmann-Margalit, formerly Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Professor Ullmann-Margalit was Professor of Education at the Hebrew Universiy of Jerusalem.
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