Convention A Philosophical Study

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.

David Lewis (1941–2001) was Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His publications include Counterfactuals (reissued by Blackwell 2000), On the Plurality of Worlds (reissued by Blackwell, 2000), Parts of Classes (1991), and numerous articles in metaphysics and other areas. Many of his writings are available in his Collected Papers.

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Coordination and Convention
Sample Coordination Problems
Analysis of Coordination Problems
Solving Coordination Problems
Convention
Sample Conventions
Convention Refined
Common Knowledge
Knowledge of Conventions
Alternatives to Convention
Degrees of Convention
Consequences of Conventions
Convention Contrasted
Agreement
Social Contracts
Norms
Rules
Conformative Behavior
Imitation
Meaning of Signals
Convention and Communication
Sample Signals
Analysis of Signaling
Verbal Signaling
Conventional Meaning of Signals
Conventions of Language
Possible Languages
Grammars
Semantics in a Possible Language
Conventions of Truthfulness
Semantics in a Population
Conclusion
Index
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