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Law, truth, and reason
a treatise on legal argumentation
Abstract
This book is an innovative contribution to analytical jurisprudence. It is mainly based on the distinct premises of linguistic philosophy and Carnapian semantics, but also addresses the issues of institutional philosophy, social pragmatism, and legal principles as envisioned by Dworkin, among others. Wróblewski´s three ideologies (bound/free/legal and rational) and Makkonen´s three situations (isomorphic/semantically vague/normative gap) of judicial decision-making are further developed by means of 10 frames of legal analysis as discerned by the author. With the philosophical theories of truth serving as a reference, the frames of legal analysis include the isomorphic theory of law (Wittgenstein, Makkonen), the coherence theory of law (Alexy, Peczenik, Dworkin), the new rhetoric and legal argumentation theory (Perelman, Aarnio), social consequentialism (Posner), natural law theory (Fuller, Finnis), and the sequential model of legal reasoning by Neil MacCormick and the Bielefelder Kreis. At the end, some key issues of legal metaphysics are addressed, like the notion of legal systematics and the future potential of the analytical approach in jurisprudence.
Details | Table of Contents
a relation of structural similarity between the two fact-constellations compared
pp.29-51
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_2shared congruence among arguments drawn from the institutional and societal sources of law
pp.53-78
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_3the new rhetoric and legal argumentation theory
pp.79-95
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_4law, judged in light of its social effects
pp.97-112
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_5retracing the original intentions of the legislator under legal exegesis
pp.113-143
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_6the law in action, not the law in books, as the subject matter of legal analysis
pp.145-163
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_7law as an expression of collective intentionality
pp.165-186
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_8the thrust of legal formalism
pp.187-200
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_9law as subordinate to social justice and political morality in society
pp.201-224
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_10social justice on a strictly contextualist basis
pp.225-237
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2_11Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2011
Pages: 290
Series: Law and Philosophy Library
Series volume: 97
ISBN (hardback): 978-94-007-1871-5
ISBN (digital): 978-94-007-1872-2
Full citation:
Siltala Raimo (2011) Law, truth, and reason: a treatise on legal argumentation. Dordrecht, Springer.