Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency

Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency
Author: George Pavlakos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2015-02-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316240568

This collection of new essays explores in depth how and why we act when we follow practical standards, particularly in connection with the authority of legal texts and lawmakers. The essays focus on the interplay of intentions and practical reasons, engaging incisive arguments to demonstrate both the close connection between them, and the inadequacy of accounts that downplay this important link. Their wide-ranging discussion includes topics such as legal interpretation, the paradox of intention, the relation between moral and legal obligation, and legal realism. The volume will appeal to scholars and students of legal philosophy, moral philosophy, law, social science, cognitive psychology, and philosophy of action.

Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency

Reasons and Intentions in Law and Practical Agency
Author: George Pavlakos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2015-02-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107070724

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

Agency, Negligence and Responsibility

Agency, Negligence and Responsibility
Author: Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108498108

An agenda-setting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex phenomenon of responsibility in negligence.

Normativity and the Will

Normativity and the Will
Author: R. Jay Wallace
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2006-03-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191536997

Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important _ papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay _ Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working_ in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and _ psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Part I, Reason, Desire, and the_ Will, discusses the nexus linking normativity to motivation, including the relations between desire and reasons, the role of normative considerations in explanations of action, and_ the normative commitments involved in willing an end (such_ as the requirement to adopt the necessary means). Part II,_ Responsibility, Identification, and Emotion, looks at _ questions about the rational capacities presupposed by _ accountable agency and the psychic factors that both inhibit and enable identification with what we do. It includes an interpretation of the Nietzschean claim that ressentiment is among the sources of modern moral consciousness. Part III,_ Morality and Other Normative Domains, addresses the _ structure of moral reasons and moral motivation, and the _ relations between moral demands and other normative domains (including especially the requirements of living a _ meaningful human life). _ _ Wallace's treatments of these topics are at once _ sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason. The _ book articulates and defends a unified framework for _ thinking about those issues, while offering sustained _ critical discussions of other influential approaches (by _ philosophers such as Korsgaard, McDowell, Nietzsche, Raz, Scanlon, and Williams). It should be of interest to every _ serious student of moral philosophy. _

Reasons and Intentions

Reasons and Intentions
Author: Bruno Verbeek
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1351906313

There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible solution in the form of rational internal commitment. Reasons and Intentions is a 'state-of-the-art' overview of the relevant positions on the possibility of such commitment, including critical ones. The introduction provides a survey of the central problem of the volume, 'how the will can bind itself and still be instrumental in nature', and the various positions which are further examined in the contributions. Addressing the question of the relation between intentions and action, the considerations which make an intention rational and how this translates into our conception of (moral) agency, this book brings together specially commissioned essays by the leading scholars in the field.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

Agency, Morality and Law

Agency, Morality and Law
Author: Joshua Jowitt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2023-01-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509947698

How does law possess the normative force it requires to direct our actions? This book argues that this seemingly innocuous question is of central importance to the philosophy of law and, by extension, of the very concept of law itself. It advances a position grounded in the secular natural law tradition, and in doing so addresses the two success criteria for this position head on: Firstly, that commitment to the existence of a supreme moral principle is required; Secondly, that any supreme moral principle must be identifiable through human reason. The book argues that these conditions are met by Alan Gewirth's Principle of Generic Consistency (PGC), which – through a dialectically necessary argument – locates the existence of universally applicable moral norms in the concept of agency. Given the very purpose of law is to guide action, legal norms must be located in a unified hierarchy of practical reason. It follows that, if law is to succeed in claiming to be capable of guiding our action, moral permissibility with reference to the PGC is a necessary condition of a rule's legal validity. This strong theory of natural law is defended throughout, both against moral sceptics and positions within contemporary legal positivism.

Intention and Wrongdoing

Intention and Wrongdoing
Author: Joshua Stuchlik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2021-12-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316516520

A comprehensive defense of the principle of double effect and the importance of intentions for normative ethics.

Faces of Intention

Faces of Intention
Author: Michael Bratman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1999-01-13
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780521637275

A collection of essays is concerned with deepening our understanding of the notion of intention.