Full Description
This collection is a pioneering effort to bring together in fruitful interaction the two dominant perspectives on social rules. One, shared by philosophers, lawyers, anthropologists, and sociologists, directly invites formalization by a logic of rules. The other, originating with economists, emphasizes cost considerations and invites mathematical t
Contents
The Logicians' and Philosophers' Approach to Rules -- The Representation of Rules in Logic and Their Definition -- Hyperdeontic Logic: An Overview -- Normative Explanations -- Rules and the Rationality of Scientific Cultures -- Changes of Rules, Issue-Circumscription, and Issue-Processing -- The Nature of Customary Law in the Manor Courts of Medieval England -- Worries About Quandaries -- Rules and Resources: The Legitimation of Political Parties in France and the United States -- Synoptic Comment on Applications of the Logical Theory of Rules -- Transition -- Do We Know Enough About Legal Norms? -- Notes on the Logic of Legal Change -- The Economists' Approach to the Origin of Rules and to Changes in Them -- Comment on Reconciling the Philosophers' Approach to Rules with the Economists' -- Institutional Change: A Framework of Analysis -- Conceptions of Social Rule -- The Origin of Rules in Uncertainty -- Rules, Equilibrium, Beliefs, and Social Mathematics -- Epilogue Schematic Synthesis -- Epilogue By Way of Summary: A Schematic Synthesis of the Discussion at the Murphy Institute Conference
