Deontic Logic and Legal Systems
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 29, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521767392
Description: "Logic and law have a long history in common, but the influence has been mostly one-sided, except perhaps in the 5th and 6th centuries B.C., where disputes at the market place or in tribunals in Greece seem to have stimulated a lot of reflection among sophistic philosophers on such topics as language and truth. Most of the time it was logic that influenced legal thinking, but in the last 50 years logicians began to be interested in normative concepts and hence in law"--
Notes: Source title: Deontic Logic and Legal Systems (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)