Conventions and Constitutive Norms

The paper addresses a popular argument that accounts of assertion in terms of constitutive norms are incompatible with conventionalism about assertion. The argument appeals to an alleged modal asymmetry: constitutive rules are essential to the acts they characterize, and therefore the obligations th...

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Main Author: García-Carpintero Manuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2019-10-01
Series:Journal of Social Ontology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jso-2019-0013