Morality and Socially Constructed Norms

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Morality and Socially Constructed Norms
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	1. Why the Moral Force of Socially Constructed Norms?
	2. Our Topic in Focus
	3. Desiderata
	4. The Agency-Respect View
	5. Implications
	6. Ambitions and Limitations
	7. Methodology
1: What Are Socially Constructed Norms?
	1. Norms: Moral versus Socially Constructed
	2. Socially Constructed Norms: The Agential-Investment Account
	3. Why the Agential-Investment Account?
	4. Intentions and Socially Constructed Norms
	5. Distinguishing Socially Constructed Norms from Related Phenomena
	6. Varieties of Socially Constructed Norms
	7. Socially Constructed Norms and Moral Reactive Attitudes
	8. Conclusion
2: Grounding the Moral Force of Socially Constructed Norms
	1. The Deflationary View and Its Attractions
	2. The Limitations of the Deflationary View
	3. Vindicating the Moral Force of Socially Constructed Norms
	4. The Principle of Established Practices
	5. The Conventionalist View
	6. The Normative-Interests View
	7. The Joint-Commitments View
	8. Conclusion
3: The Agency-Respect View
	1. Desiderata
	2. Respecting Normative Worlds
	3. Principle P: The Agency-Respect Principle
	4. Empirical Fact F: Socially Constructed Norms and People’s Commitments
	5. Action Required: The Obligation to Obey Socially Constructed Norms
	6. The Explanatory Power of the Agency-Respect View
	7. How the Agency-Respect View Fits the Evidence
	8. Objections
	9. Conclusion
4: Grounding Moral Rights
	1. Two Types of Rights: Rights as Inviolability and Rights as Control
	2. Rights as Control
	3. Normative Powers, Publicity, and Socially Constructed Norms
	4. Linguistic Conventions, Speech Acts, and Normative Powers
	5. Intentions and Normative Powers
	6. Demanding and Waiving Unintentionally
	7. De Facto Powers, Moral Powers, and Socially Constructed Norms
	8. From De Facto to Moral Powers
	9. Rights and Wrongings
	10. Conclusion
5: Grounding Political Obligation
	1. The Political-Obligation Debate: Terminology and Significance
	2. The Difficulties with Existing Views
	3. Democratic Theory
	4. The Agency-Respect View
	5. The Agency-Respect View and Civil Disobedience
	6. Between Anarchism and Legal Normativism
	7. Conclusion
6: Explaining the Wrong of Sovereignty Violations
	1. Defining Sovereignty
	2. The Sovereignty-Violation Trilemma
	3. Giving Up Normative Individualism
	4. Giving Up the Wrong of Sovereignty Violations
	5. Contesting That Individuals’ Legitimate Interests Are Not Undermined
	6. The Agency-Respect View
	7. Back to Our Three Cases
	8. Concerns
	9. Conclusion
Conclusion
	1. Conformity, Obedience, and the Deflationary View
	2. Agency Respect
	3. Who Is Wronged by Breaches of Socially Constructed Norms?
	4. When in Rome Do as the Romans Do
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