Convention: A Philosophical Study 1st Edition by David Lewis (PDF)

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Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions are contrasted with other kinds of regularity, and conventions governing systems of communication are given special attention.

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⭐clarifies lot of things.

⭐As important as any work of philosophy published in English since “Philosophical Investigations”. Nobody ever assigned me this book when I was studying philosophy, and yet if you haven’t read it carefully at least three times you won’t really know anything about what actually happened after “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”, or what’s going on now.The comment by Gintis about pure coordination games seems whiggish – you have to read the book in the context of what was happening in game theory then, what Schelling himself was saying. Of course things have been tidied up now, and the definitions are all more precise, but you can’t criticize Lewis for not predicting the future in 1969. I’m not sure he ever actually says the theory is only supposed to apply to pure coordination games. As Gintis himself points out, none of the examples he used support that theory.In fact. if we do want to read whiggishly, a much more interesting claim can be extracted from the book. It’s clear from what Lewis says about the way conventions can function as traps that not all of them are in the Core… Which would make no sense if all of them are equilibriums in games of pure coordination.

⭐This book does what it purports to do, analyse convention. It is writtin the the spirit of Quine and Carnap’s style of philisophical analysis, and is a fantastic book if you are familiar with thier work (especially Carnap’s “Meaning and Necessity” and Quines “Word and Object” and “From a Logical Point of View” all of which are avialable). There is a significant amount of game theoretical explanation in the first part of the book and would be a great as an example of what game theory is capable of doing (besides the usual economic and biological examples). A great book by a great philosopher and a great writer.

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