Research Catalog

Title

Naturalizing jurisprudence : essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophy / Brian Leiter.

Author

Leiter, Brian

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

viii, 287 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Gathering together Brian Leiter's most influential essays on the subject of American legal realism, this book provides an overview of his redefinition of legal realism and its relationship with other models of legal and philosophical thought, from naturalism in philosophy to critical legal studies.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Alternative Title

• Essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophy.
• Essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophy

Subject

• Universidad Sergio Arboleda
• Law > Philosophy
• Realism
• Naturalism
• Jurisprudence > United States
• Naturalisme
• Realisme (filosofie)
• Verenigde Staten

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: From legal realism to naturalized jurisprudence -- A note on legal indeterminacy -- Part I. American legal realism and its critics -- Rethinking legal realism: toward a naturalized jurisprudence (1997) -- Legal realism and legal positivism reconsidered (2001) -- Is there an "American" jurisprudence? (1997) -- Postscript to Part I: Interpreting legal realism -- Part II. Ways of naturalizing jurisprudence -- Legal realism, hard positivism, and the limits of conceptual analysis (1998, 2001) -- Why Quine is not a postmodernist (1997) -- Beyond the Hart/Dworkin debate: the methodology problem in jurisprudence (2003) -- Part III. Naturalism, morality, and objectivity -- Moral facts and best explanations (2001) -- Objectivity, morality, and adjudication (2001) -- Law and objectivity (2002).

ISBN

• 0199299013 (hbk.)
• 9780199299010 (hbk.)
• 019920649X (pbk.)
• 9780199206490 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 74966557
• SCSB-11868125

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library