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A collection of new essays on the interplay between intentions and practical reasons in law and practical agency.
List of contents
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.
About the author
George Pavlakos is Research Professor of Globalization and Legal Theory at the University of Antwerp and Professor of Globalization and Legal Theory at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Our Knowledge of the Law (2007) and has edited several collections of essays including New Essays on the Normativity of Law (2011).Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco is Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Law and Authority under the Guise of the Good (2014).
Summary
Exploring how and why we act when we follow practical standards, this collection of new essays focuses on the interplay of intentions and practical reasons in practical agency, making it of interest to scholars and students of philosophy of action, legal philosophy, cognitive psychology, law, social science, and ethics.
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Advance praise: 'This sophisticated book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in law and practical reasoning.' Dennis Patterson, European University Institute
