Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in soci...(展开全部)

Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road. In this book, Andrei Marmor offers a pathbreaking and comprehensive philosophical analysis of conventions and the roles they play in soci...(展开全部)

The language of law includes normative or prescriptive terms such as 'obligation' and 'permission'. How do we explain the meaning of prescriptive legal language? This has long been regarded as a problem for positivists, since at first glance their view suggests we can derive an ought – a legal obligation or right or permission – from descriptive social facts alone. This Element...(展开全部)

苏珊•菲斯克(Susan T. Fiske) 1978年获哈佛大学社会心理学博士学位，现为美国普林斯顿大学“尤金•希金斯”心理学教授、心理学与公共事务教授，美国国家科学院、美国艺术与科学院院士。曾当选心理科学协会（APS）主席、人格与社会心理学会（SPSP）主席、行为与脑科学联合会主席。现为《心理学年鉴》（Annual Review of Psychology）的主编以及国际顶级期刊《美国国家科学院院刊》（PNAS）的编委。 荣获美国心理学协会（APA）的心理学杰出科学贡献奖、美国心理科学协会的威廉•詹姆士奖、社会与人格心理学会的唐纳德•坎贝尔奖以及古根海姆学者奖等众多重量级奖项。 谢利•泰勒(Shelley E. Taylor) 1972年获耶鲁大学社会心理学博士学位，曾先后在耶鲁大学和哈佛大学任教，现为美国加州大学洛杉矶分校心理学杰出教授，美国国...(展开全部)

苏珊•菲斯克(Susan T. Fiske) 1978年获哈佛大学社会心理学博士学位，现为美国普林斯顿大学“尤金•希金斯”心理学教授、心理学与公共事务教授，美国国家科学院、美国艺术与科学院院士。曾当选心理科学协会（APS）主席、人格与社会心理学会（SPSP）主席、行为与脑科学联合会主席。现为《心理学年鉴》（Annual Review of Psychology）的主编以及国际顶级期刊《美国国家科学院院刊》（PNAS）的编委。 荣获美国心理学协会（APA）的心理学杰出科学贡献奖、美国心理科学协会的威廉•詹姆士奖、社会与人格心理学会的唐纳德•坎贝尔奖以及古根海姆学者奖等众多重量级奖项。 谢利•泰勒(Shelley E. Taylor) 1972年获耶鲁大学社会心理学博士学位，曾先后在耶鲁大学和哈佛大学任教，现为美国加州大学洛杉矶分校心理学杰出教授，美国国...(展开全部)

What is the role of law in a society in which order is maintained mostly through social norms, trust, and non-legal sanctions? Eric Posner argues that social norms are sometimes desirable yet sometimes odious, and that the law is critical to enhancing good social norms and undermining bad ones. But he also argues that the proper regulation of social norms is a delicate and comp...(展开全部)

In this excellent book, Posner (law, Univ. of Chicago) raises such fundamental questions as why people conform to social norms and why they generally refrain from antisocial behavior even when the law is absent. He then proposes a methodology for the systematic analysis of social norms. Posner uses models of nonlegal collective action to show the possibilities underlying cooper...(展开全部)

A unique overview of the human language faculty at all levels of organization. Language is not only one of the most complex cognitive functions that we command, it is also the aspect of the mind that makes us uniquely human. Research suggests that the human brain exhibits a language readiness not found in the brains of other species. This volume brings together contributions fr...(展开全部)