The difference between the scope of a norm and its apparent source
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Published on: May 31, 2011
1Department 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.
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