Law, Metaphysics, Meaning, and Objectivity

by Villanueva, Enrique

• ISBN13: 9789042023758
• ISBN10: 9042023759
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Brill Rodopi

Summary

Papers in philosophy of law by some of the younger cutting-edge contributors to the field. Two sets of issues of crucial current importance are taken up. The first part deals with issues of meaning and objectivity in the metaphysics of law. The second part is about rights theory. This volume will be required reading for anyone interested in philosophy of law, and also of use for those with broader interests in ethics, metaethics, and social and political philosophy.

Table of Contents

Metaphysics, Meaning, and Objectivity
Interpretivist Theories of Law	p. 3
How Facts Make Law	p. 21
On the Normative Significance of Brute Facts	p. 75
On Practices and the Law	p. 95
Supervenience, Value, and Legal Content	p. 125
Reasons Without Values?	p. 133
Theory, Practice and Ubiquitous Interpretation: The Basics	p. 145
Law as a Reflective Practice	p. 179
On Reflective Practices and 'Substituting for God'	p. 189
Metasemantics and Objectivity	p. 215
Can Objectivity be Grounded in Semantics?	p. 235
Rights Theory
A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights	p. 263
Is the Will Theory of Rights Superseded by the Hybrid Theory?	p. 289
In Defence of the Hybrid Theory	p. 299
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