Meaning, Mind and Law

Dennis Patterson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

378 Seiten

2008
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7546-2749-4 (ISBN)

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In this important collection of papers, Dennis Patterson continues to show the importance of Wittgenstein's thought for problems in legal theory. Ranging across issues in the philosophy of mind to questions of meaning and normativity, this collection of papers is essential reading for anyone with an interest in legal theory.

Dennis Patterson is Professor in the School of Law at Rutgers University, USA, and is Professor of Jurisprudence and International Trade at the School of Law, Swansea University, UK.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Moral evaluation and conceptual analysis in jurisprudential methodology (with John Oberdiek); Dworkin on the semantics of legal and political concepts; Wittgenstein on understanding and interpretation (comments on the work of Thomas Morawetz); Notes on the methodology debate in contemporary jurisprudence: why sociologists might be interested; Interpretation in law; Fashionable nonsense; Normativity and objectivity in law; Explicating the internal point of view; Langdell's legacy; Wittgenstein and constitutional theory; Conscience and the constitution; Law's pragmatism: a theory of law as practice and narrative; Law's practice; Realist semantics and legal theory; Interpretation in law: toward a reconstruction of the current debate; Name index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.3.2008
Reihe/Serie	Collected Essays in Law
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	771 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-7546-2749-7 / 0754627497
ISBN-13	978-0-7546-2749-4 / 9780754627494
Zustand	Neuware