Naturalizing jurisprudence
Subtitle: essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophy
By: Brian Leiter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780199299010; 9780199206490
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy.; Realism.; Naturalism.; Jurisprudence -- United States.; Naturalisme.; Realisme (filosofie); Verenigde Staten.
Other titles: Essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: From legal realism to naturalized jurisprudence; value: A note on legal indeterminacy; value: Part I. American legal realism and its critics; value: Rethinking legal realism: toward a naturalized jurisprudence (1997); value: Legal realism and legal positivism reconsidered (2001); value: Is there an "American" jurisprudence? (1997); value: Postscript to Part I: Interpreting legal realism; value: Part II. Ways of naturalizing jurisprudence; value: Legal realism, hard positivism, and the limits of conceptual analysis (1998, 2001); value: Why Quine is not a postmodernist (1997); value: Beyond the Hart/Dworkin debate: the methodology problem in jurisprudence (2003); value: Part III. Naturalism, morality, and objectivity; value: Moral facts and best explanations (2001); value: Objectivity, morality, and adjudication (2001); value: Law and objectivity (2002).