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41Naturalizing jurisprudence: essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophyOxford University Press. 2007.Introduction: From legal realism to naturalized jurisprudence -- A note on legal indeterminacy -- Part I. American legal realism and its critics -- Rethinking legal realism: toward a naturalized jurisprudence (1997) -- Legal realism and legal positivism reconsidered (2001) -- Is there an "American" jurisprudence? (1997) -- Postscript to Part I: Interpreting legal realism -- Part II. Ways of naturalizing jurisprudence -- Legal realism, hard positivism, and the limits of conceptual analysis (199…Read more
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I confess to uncertainty about whether Professor Hoekema's reply http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/10/hoekema=leiter.html) to my comments on his review of Wilshire http://ndpr.icaap.org/content/archives/2002/10/leiter=hoekema.html) is just careless or intentionally dishonest. It is plainly quite misleading.
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42Legal positivismIn Dennis Patterson (ed.), A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory, Blackwell. 1996.This chapter contains sections titled: Jurisprudence: Method and Subject Matter Legality and Authority Positivism: Austin vs. Hart The Authority of Law Judicial Discretion Incorporationism and Legality Raz' s Theory of Authority Incorporationism and Authority Conclusion Postscript References.
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36Review of Christopher Janaway, Beyond Selflessness: Reading Nietzsche's Genealogy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (6). 2008.
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63Moralities are a sign-language of the affectsSocial Philosophy and Policy 30 (1-2): 237-258. 2013.This essay offers an interpretation and partial defense of Nietzsche's idea that moralities and moral judgments are “sign-languages” or “symptoms” of our affects, that is, of our emotions or feelings. According to Nietzsche, as I reconstruct his view, moral judgments result from the interaction of two kinds of affective responses: first, a “basic affect” of inclination toward or aversion from certain acts, and then a further affective response to that basic affect. I argue that Nietzsche views b…Read more
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Law and objectivityIn Jules Coleman & Scott J. Shapiro (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence & Philosophy of Law, Oxford University Press. pp. 969--89. 2002.
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Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Law |
19th Century Philosophy |