Meaning Mind and Law

by Dennis Patterson

Overview

In this important collection of papers, Dennis Patterson continues to show the importance of Wittgenstein's thought for problems in legal theory. Ranging across issues in the philosophy of mind to questions of meaning and normativity, this collection of papers is essential reading for anyone with an interest in legal theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754627494
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Publication date:	03/01/2008
Series:	Collected Essays in Law Series
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Dennis Patterson is Professor in the School of Law at Rutgers University, USA, and is Professor of Jurisprudence and International Trade at the School of Law, Swansea University, UK.

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Moral evaluation and conceptual analysis in jurisprudential methodology (with John Oberdiek); Dworkin on the semantics of legal and political concepts; Wittgenstein on understanding and interpretation (comments on the work of Thomas Morawetz); Notes on the methodology debate in contemporary jurisprudence: why sociologists might be interested; Interpretation in law; Fashionable nonsense; Normativity and objectivity in law; Explicating the internal point of view; Langdell's legacy; Wittgenstein and constitutional theory; Conscience and the constitution; Law's pragmatism: a theory of law as practice and narrative; Law's practice; Realist semantics and legal theory; Interpretation in law: toward a reconstruction of the current debate; Name index.