Social Foundations of Normative Judgment

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An outsize portion of human life is spent engaged in banter and quarrel. Some of this is trivial and domestic, like disputes about the proper arrangement of lounge furniture or who should rightfully clean the dishes on any given weekday. This can shade out into broader arguments about the civility of certain sartorial choices and the wisdom of team selectors in our favoured sporting codes. And the stakes can spiral higher and higher, as in our chronic contests for political power or in the questions we ask about the appropriate ways to structure our friendships and families. My thoughts on these issues, thankfully, are not the subject of this thesis. But there is a thread that ties all these diverse enquiries together. They all seek to ask questions about the value of some forms of living, questions that can't be asked or answered without noting the way that they recur for all those around us. It is norms that structure this form of social interaction and frame the way that we understand these types of issues. Or so I will claim. What I really want to explore in this thesis is how norms operate and how we deploy them in our lives