Conventions and social institutions

Southern Journal of Philosophy 27 (4):599-618 (1989)
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This essay examines views of convention advanced by David Lewis and Margaret Gilbert.

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10.1111/j.2041-6962.1989.tb00512.x

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Convention: A Philosophical Study.David Kellogg Lewis - 1969 - Cambridge, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.
The Concept of Law.Hla Hart - 1961 - Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press UK.
Convention: A Philosophical Study.David Lewis - 1969 - Synthese 26 (1):153-157.
Languages and language.David K. Lewis - 2010 - In Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel (eds.), Arguing about language. New York: Routledge. pp. 3-35.
The Concept of Law.Stuart M. Brown - 1963 - Philosophical Review 72 (2):250.

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