Dennis Patterson

Meaning, Mind and Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9781138383555
• ISBN-10: 1138383554
• Artikelnr.: 69897477

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.