In this article, we follow the standard philosophical convention according to which "a mind" means "at least one mind".
See the entry on common knowledge for discussion of this controversy and of how common knowledge informs both game theory and the philosophical study of convention.
The central philosophical task posed by conventions is to analyze what they are and how they differ from mere regularities of action and cognition.
His dissertation on linguistic convention, written under the supervision of Willard Van Orman Quine (1908 2000), was published as Convention: A Philosophical Study in 1969.
In 1966, Convention: A Philosophical Study (his rehashed thesis) broke new ground in the philosophy of language, in which it remains a seminal work.
Mr. Lewis wrote "Convention: A Philosophical Study" (1969), which won the Matchette Prize in Philosophy for scholars under 40; "Counterfactuals" (1973); "On the Plurality of Worlds" (1986); "Parts of Classes" (1991); and many papers.
But he should not deny other parents their right, enshrined in the European convention on human rights, to state-funded "education and teaching in conformity with their own religions and philosophical convictions".
These core values, reflected in international treaties, legislation, conventions, religious and philosophical writings and judicial opinions, shape why and how various mental states, conditions, behaviors, drives and adaptations are classified as healthy or not.
For many philosophers, a central philosophical task is to elucidate how we succeed in "creating facts" through our conventions.
Christopher Peacocke has argued that the way in which joint attention episodes are shared involves a kind of reciprocal recognition of the other's recognition of one's own attention, and so that it involves a kind of mutual openness that is analogous to the openness of 'common knowledge', as that notion figures in philosophical analyses of communication and convention.
