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Objectivity in Law and Morals

By Brian Leiter (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780521554305, 0521554306, 9780521041492, 052104149X, 9780511570698, 0511570694
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511570698
LCC
K247.6 .O25 2001
Google Books ID
IxpCd4ITdIMC
Open Library ID
OL6777924M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23339965 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
Pages
x,354\367
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-09-28 22:22:00

Description

The seven original essays included in this volume from 2000, written by some of the world's most distinguished moral and legal philosophers, offer a sophisticated perspective on issues about the objectivity of legal interpretation and judicial decision-making. They examine objectivity from both metaphysical and epistemological perspectives and develop a variety of approaches, constructive and critical, to the fundamental problems of objectivity in morality. One of the key issues explored is that of the alleged 'domain-specificity' of conceptions of objectivity, i.e. whether there is a conception of objectivity appropriate for ethics that is different in kind from the conception of objectivity appropriate for other areas of study. This volume considers the intersection between objectivity in ethics and objectivity in law. It presents a survey of live issues in metaethics, and examines their relevance to theorizing about law and adjudication.

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