Law, metaphysics, meaning, and objectivity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Enrique Villanueva

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781814003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Mexico City (Mexico)], : Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2007
• ISBN: 94-012-0565-5; 1-4356-3326-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Collana: Social, political, & legal philosophy ; ; v. 2; Rodopi philosophical studies ; ; 8
• Altri autori (Persone): VillanuevaEnrique
• Disciplina: 340.1
• Soggetti: Law - Philosophy; Metaphysics; Objectivity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Some of the main papers in this volume were presented to the I International Conference of the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas ... in Mexico City, July 7-11, 2003"--Pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Interpretivist Theories of Law / Nicos Stavropoulos -- How Facts Make Law / Mark Greenberg -- On the Normative Significance of Brute Facts / Ram Neta -- On Practices and the Law / Mark Greenberg -- Supervenience, Value, and Legal Content / Enrique Villanueva -- Reasons Without Values? / Mark Greenberg -- Theory, Practice and Ubiquitous Interpretation: The Basics / Martin Stone -- Law as a Reflective Practice / Scott Hershovitz -- On Reflective Practices and 'Substituting for God' / Martin Stone -- Metasemantics and Objectivity / Ori Simchen -- Can Objectivity be Grounded in Semantics? / Michael S. Moore -- A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights / Gopal Sreenivasan -- Is the Will Theory of Rights Superseded by the Hybrid Theory? / Horacio Spector -- In Defence of the Hybrid Theory / Gopal Sreenivasan.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.