Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency

ISBN-13: 9781107642928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 341 str.

George Pavlakos; Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco

Opis

A collection of new essays on the interplay between intentions and practical reasons in law and practical agency.

Recenzje

'The essays in the book are rich and topical. They cover a variety of different issues, but with many interesting connections between them. This is a book that repays close study. I recommend it to anyone who has an interest in these areas.' Jonathan Crowe, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Spis treści

Introduction George Pavlakos and Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco; Part I. The Normative Meaning of Actions: 1. Intentions, permissibility, and the reasons for which we act Ulrike Heuer; 2. Acting and satisficing Sergio Tenenbaum; 3. Interpretation without intentions Heidi M. Hurd; 4. Metasemantics and legal interpretation Ori Simchen; Part II. Normativity of Legal Authority: 5. Doing another's bidding Matthew Hanser; 6. Legal authority and the paradox of intention in action Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco; 7. The deliberative and epistemic dimension of legitimate authoritative directives Anthony Hatzistavrou; 8. Public transit A. J. Julius; 9. Ought we to do what we ought to be made to do? Cohen and Nagel on the personal and the political William A. Edmundson; 10. Juridical laws as moral laws in Kant's The Doctrine of Right Ben Laurence; 11. The relation between moral and legal obligation: an alternative Kantian reading George Pavlakos; Part III. The Social Dimension of Normativity: 12. Law's artefactual nature: how legal institutions generate normativity Kenneth M. Ehrenberg; 13. American Legal Realism and practical guidance Manuel Vargas and Joshua P. Davis; 14. The authority of conventions, norms, and law Bruno Verbeek; Select bibliography; Index.