Research Catalog

Title

J.L. Austin and the law : exculpation and the explication of responsibility / Daniel Yeager.

Author

Yeager, Daniel Brian.

Publication

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2006.

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Details

Description

215 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Yeager's aim in this book is to confront the idea of responsibility by mapping the work of J. L. Austin onto the criminal law." "Yeager's position is that the criminal-law vocabulary, or at least its deployment, threatens to freeze up or impede assessments of responsibility. In other words, the prevailing view of criminal law, a view that he traces to skepticism, may be, at its worst, a real snag in any meaningful attempt to come to grips with who is answerable for what, and to what extent. Yeager's thesis is to show that if we were to adopt the criminal-law way of talking about things - a mode of expression that he characterizes as false - the very purpose of ordinary moral language would be undermined."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

John Langshaw Austin and the law

Subject

• Austin, J. L. 1911-1960
• Responsibility
• Criminal law
• Ordinary-language philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-205) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Mens rea -- Inchoate criminality as partial excuse -- Is criminal law (especially) moral? -- The ghost in the machine.

ISBN

0838756212

LCCN

^^2005011813

OCLC

• 60349142
• SCSB-10416876

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library