Law, truth and reason
Subtitle: a treatise on legal argumentation
By: Raimo Siltala
Series: Law and philosophy library -- v. 97; Law and philosophy library -- v. 97.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9789400718715
Subjects: Methodology; Philosophy; Law; Jurisprudence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-282) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: An isomorphic theory of law : a relation of structural similarity between the two fact-constellations compared; title: Coherence theory of law : shared congruence among arguments drawn from the institutional and societal sources of law; title: "Between the evident and the irrational" : the new rhetoric and legal argumentation theory; title: Philosophical pragmatism : law, judged in light of its social effects; title: Analytical legal positivism : retracing the original intentions of the legislator under legal exegesis; title: Legal realism : the law in action, not the law in books, as the subject matter of legal analysis; title: Legal conventionalism : law as an expression of collective intentionality; title: "Die Rechtssätze in ihrem systematischen Zusammenhang zu erkennen"; title: the thrust of legal formalism; title: Natural law philosophy : law as subordinate to social justice and political morality in society; title: Radical decisionism : social justice on a strictly contextualist basis; title: Intermission; title: Law and metaphysics.