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Theory and practice / edited by Ian Shapiro and Judith Wagner DeCew.

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xiv, 487 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Of central interest are the role of theory in judicial decision-making, debates between defenders of the value of pure theory and those who argue for the priority of practice, the political implications of theory, practical problems such as global warming, and the theoretical commitments of practitioners from Karl Marx to Vaclav Havel. One of the most expansive volumes in the NOMOS series to date, Theory and Practice will be of interest to philosophers, lawyers, and social scientists from a wide range of disciplines.
What are the relations between philosophical theories and everyday life? This question, as old as it is profound, is the central focus of Theory and Practice. The authors include some of the most influential thinkers of our generation, among them Cass Sunstein, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martha Nussbaum, Jeremy Waldron, and Kent Greenawalt. In sixteen chapters--all published here for the first time--the authors examine major attempts to reconcile theory with practice in the Western tradition, from Herodotus, Plato, and Aristotle to Kant and Heidegger, and examine contemporary efforts to grapple with this problem.

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Nomos ; 37

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Conference papers and proceedings

Note

"Papers and commentaries read at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, held in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in Washington, D.C., in December 1992"--Pref.

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Contents

[Chapeter] 11. On regulating practices with theories drawn from them : a case of justice as fairness / Frank I. Michelman.

ISBN

0814780032 (alk. paper)

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^^^94023936^

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Harvard Library