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The difference between the scope of a norm and its apparent source

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2018

Jonathan Birch*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom. j.birch2@lse.ac.ukpersonal.lse.ac.uk/birchj1

Abstract

We should distinguish between the apparent source of a norm and the scope of the norm's satisfaction conditions. Wide-scope social norms need not be externalised, and externalised social norms need not be wide in scope. Attending to this distinction leads to a problem for Stanford: The adaptive advantages he attributes to externalised norms are actually advantages of wide-scope norms.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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