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54A Revision of the Constitutive and Epistemic Coherence Theories in LawRatio Juris 14 (2): 212-232. 2001.This paper analyses and criticizes Joseph Raz's attacks on coherentist theories. It is argued that Raz's characterisation of epistemic coherence theories is too narrow and that his criticism of constitutive coherence theories is based on a conceptual mistake in his own description. The study is an indirect argument to rethink coherence theories of law and adjudication within a more powerful framework than that propounded by Raz.
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24Is Practical Knowledge Prior to Theoretical Knowledge in Action? Reflecting on Anscombe’s Institutional TransparencyJournal of Value Inquiry 52 (3): 257-267. 2018.
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62The Why-Question Methodology, The Guise of the Good and Legal NormativityJurisprudence 8 (1): 127-142. 2017.
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Re-examining Deep Conventions: Practical Reason and Forward-Looking AgencyIn Josep Vilajosana & Lorena Ramírez-Ludeña (eds.), Legal Conventionalism, Springer Verlag. 2019.
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Book Review: The Law and the Right: A Reappraisal of the Reality that Ought to Be, by Enrico Pattaro (review)Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 22 (2): 451-456. 2009.Rodriguez-Blanco examines Enrico Pattaro's effort to explain the normativeness or binding force of the law. Pattaro defends the controversial claim that norms are motives of behaviour and provides a rich explanation of how these motives, i.e., beliefs in the human brain, move human agency. In her review, Rodriguez-Blanco challenges Pattaro's empirical conception of human agency