Convention: A Philosophical StudyISBN: 978-0-631-23257-5
Paperback
228 pages
May 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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"Readers will be indebted to the author of this book."
Philosophical Quarterly
"The notion of convention has served philosophers since
Aristotle as a convenient exploration of the arbitrary character of
referential word meaning. In 1936 Willard Quine, pursuing the
notion of analyticity, called attention to the emptiness of this
explanation. David Lewis has attempted to re-establish the notion
of convention as a partial explanation of analytic truth [and his]
explication of "convention" is a tour de force of Humean
analysis." Philosophy and Rhetoric
"This book has been published for quite some time. Its significant contribution is no longer in question [and it will] remain a central reference for discussions on the nature of conventions. An excellent book for teaching purposes." Australasian Journal of Philosophy