1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910484149603321

Autore

Welch John R

Titolo

Moral Strata : Another Approach to Reflective Equilibrium / / by John R. Welch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-08013-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Collana

Theory and Decision Library A:, Rational Choice in Practical Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, , 0921-3384 ; ; 49

Disciplina

10

170

519

658.40301

Soggetti

Ethics

Operations research

Decision making

Mathematics

Social sciences

Operations Research/Decision Theory

Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Chapter 1 Discursive Strata -- Chapter 2 Saving the Moral Phenomena -- Chapter 3 Comparative Decision Theory -- Chapter 4 Working with Moral Means -- Chapter 5 Securing Our Moral Ends -- Chapter 6 Remedies for Reflective Disequilibrium -- Index. .

Sommario/riassunto

This volume recreates the received notion of reflective equilibrium. It reconfigures reflective equilibrium as both a cognitive ideal and a method for approximating this ideal. The ideal of reflective equilibrium is restructured using the concept of discursive strata, which are formed by sentences and differentiated by function. Sentences that perform the same kind of linguistic function constitute a stratum. The book shows how moral discourse can be analyzed into phenomenal, instrumental, and teleological strata, and the ideal of reflective equilibrium reworked



in these terms. In addition, the work strengthens the method of reflective equilibrium by harnessing the resources of decision theory and inductive logic. It launches a comparative version of decision theory and employs this framework as a guide to moral theory choice. It also recruits quantitative inductive logic to inform a standard of inductive cogency. When used in tandem with comparative decision theory, this standard can aid in the effort to turn the undesirable condition of reflective disequilibrium into reflective equilibrium.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910520003403321

Titolo

The limits of the legal complex : Nordic lawyers and political liberalism / edited by Malcolm Feeley,  Malcolm Langford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 280 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

349.48

Soggetti

Law - Scandinavia

Law - Scandinavia - History

Lawyers - Scandinavia

Liberalism - Scandinavia

Scandinavia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Malcolm Feeley and Malcolm Langford. Nordic exceptionalism and the legal complex / Malcolm Feeley and Malcolm Langford. The legal complex in struggles for political liberalism in Sweden / Johan Karlsson Schaffer. Denmark : between the law state and the welfare state / Mikael Rask Madsen. Norwegian lawyers and political mobilization 1623-2015 / Malcolm Langford. The legal complex : Denmark and Norway under German occupation 1940-1945 / Hans Petter Graver. Finland : lawyers in and out of the shadows of political liberalism / Esa Konttinen. Iceland : lawyers, politics, and liberalism /



Ragnhildur Helgadóttir. Revisiting the theory of the legal complex / Malcolm Langford.

Sommario/riassunto

Spanning two centuries and five Nordic countries, this book questions the view that political lawyers are required for the development of a liberal political regime. It combines cross-disciplinary theory and careful empirical case studies by country experts whose regional insights are brought to bear on wider global contexts.