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Patterson Dennis

Meaning, mind and law - Aldershot Ashgate Publishing Company 2008 - 360p xiii

Contents:
Acknowledgements;
Series Editor’s Preface;
Preface;
Introduction;
1. Moral evaluation and conceptual analysis in jurisprudential methodology (with John Oberdiek);
2. Dworkin on the semantics of legal and political concepts;
3. Wittgenstein on understanding and interpretation (comments on the work of Thomas Morawetz);
4. Notes on the methodology debate in contemporary jurisprudence: why sociologists might be interested;
5. Interpretation in law;
6. Fashionable nonsense;
7. Normativity and objectivity in law;
8. Explicating the internal point of view;
9. Langdell's legacy;
10. Wittgenstein and constitutional theory;
11. Conscience and the constitution;
12. Law's pragmatism: a theory of law as practice and narrative;
13. Law's practice;
14. Realist semantics and legal theory;
15. Interpretation in law: toward a reconstruction of the current debate;
Name index.


ISBN: 9780754627494

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Law - Philosophy2. Jurisprudence

Dewey Class. No.: 340.1 PAT