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- An innovative contribution to analytic jurisprudence
- Suggests a new definition of coherence in law
- Makes a major contribution to key areas in law and jurisprudence
- Provides a new definition of legal interpretation
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 97)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Keywords
- Alf Ross
- Alfred Tarski
- Analytic Jurisprudence
- Bielefelder Kreis
- Carl von Savigny
- Coherence Theory
- Coherence in Law
- Erik Stenius
- Georg Friedrich Puchta
- H.L.A. Hart
- Interpretation
- Jerzy Wróblewski
- John Finnis
- Jurisprudence
- Kaarle Makkonen
- Karl Marx
- Langdellian Orthodoxy
- Legal Argumentation Theory
- Legal Conventionalism
- Legal Exegesis
- Legal Fact-Situation
- Legal Formalism
- Legal Interpretation
- Legal Isomorphism
- Legal Positivism
- Legal Principles
- Legal Realism
- Legal Reasoning
- Legal Rules
- Linguistics
- Lon L. Fuller
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Natural Law Philosophy
- Neil MacCormick
- New Rhetoric and the Law
- Picture Theory of Language
- Pragmatism and the Law
- Radical Decisionism
- Robert S. Summers
- Rudolf Carnap
- Rudolf von Jhering
- Semantic Theory of Truth
- Semantics
- Semantics of Legal Interpretation
- Semiotics
- Social Justice
- Societal Sources of Law
- Ten Frames of Legal Analysis
- Theories of Truth and Legal Analysis
- Theory of Law
- Three Ideologies of Judicial Decision-Making
- Three Situations of Legal Decision Making
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Ugo Mattei
- Value-Cognitivism
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Authors and Affiliations
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, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Raimo Siltala
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Law, Truth, and Reason
Book Subtitle: A Treatise on Legal Argumentation
Authors: Raimo Siltala
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1872-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Netherlands 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1871-5Published: 29 July 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3796-9Published: 27 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1872-2Published: 29 July 2011
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 290
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Linguistics, general