Norms and Customs Can’t Cause Anything

One of the most common ways of explaining human behavior is in terms of norms and customs. I argue, here, that there are very good reasons to think that most such explanations are mistaken. Norms and customs, I will argue, are not the sorts of things that can cause anyone to do anything. Calling a b...

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