epistemological foundations of law
Subtitle: readings and commentary
By: by Isaak I. Dore.
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham, N. C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781594603877
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy; Knowledge, Theory of; Semantics (Law)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the epistemological context; title: The epistemology of pre-Socratic Greek rationalism; title: Plato's epistemology and his theory of ethics, government, and law; title: Aristotle's epistemology and his theory of ethics, government, and law; title: Natural law theory; title: The decline of classical naturalism : the modernist challenge; title: The rise of legal positivism; title: Epistemological themes of twentieth-century natural law theory; title: Epistemological themes of twentieth-century legal positivism; title: Contemporary highlights of the positivist/naturalist debate; title: Contemporary highlights of the debate over naturalism : controversy from within and without; title: The postmodern challenge to foundationalism; title: Postmodernism in the United States.