Social Goodness: The Ontology of Social Norms

We are all immersed in a sea of social norms, but they are sometimes tricky to observe with any clarity. They are often invisible to us and emerge only when they are not observed. Social norms are important to understand because they are both limiting of our freedom, such as gendered and racialized norms, and at the same time the very conditions of our agency.

Social Goodness presents an original, externalist answer to the question of the source or origin of social role normativity. Rather t...