Reason, Normativity and Law

Reason, Normativity and Law
Author: Alice Pinheiro Walla
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Normativity (Ethics).
ISBN: 9781786835123

How should we act? How should the world be organised? This book offers answers to these questions by analysing Kant's conception of normativity. It presents different applications of Kant's theory of normativity to meta-ethical, moral, juridical and political issues of contemporary relevance.

Kant's Theory of Normativity

Kant's Theory of Normativity
Author: Konstantin Pollok
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2017-02-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107127807

A milestone in Kant scholarship, this interpretation of his critical philosophy makes sense of his notorious 'synthetic judgments a priori'.

From Normativity to Responsibility

From Normativity to Responsibility
Author: Joseph Raz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199693811

What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? Joseph Raz examines the philosophical issues underlying these everyday questions. He explores the nature of normativity--the reasoning behind certain beliefs and emotions about how we should behave--and offers a novel account of responsibility.

Kant's Tribunal of Reason

Kant's Tribunal of Reason
Author: Sofie Møller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108498493

This is the first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors, whose philosophical importance has so far been overlooked. It will appeal to academic researchers and advanced students of Kant, early modern philosophy, legal philosophy, and intellectual history.

New Essays on the Normativity of Law

New Essays on the Normativity of Law
Author: Stefano Bertea
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2011-08-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847318231

An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty and right. These require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law. Normativity is, accordingly, to be regarded as a central feature of law lying at the heart of any comprehensive legal-theoretical project. The essays collected in this book are meant to further our understanding of the normativity of law. More specifically, the book stages a thorough discussion of legal normativity as approached from three strands of legal thought that are particularly influential and which play a key role in shaping debates on the normative dimension of law: the theory of planning agency, legal conventionalism and the constitutivist approach. While the essays presented here do not aspire to give an exhaustive picture of these debates - an aspiration that would be, by its very nature, unrealistic - they do provide the reader with some authoritative statements of some widely discussed families of views of legal normativity. In pursuing this objective, these essays also encourage a dialogue between different traditions of study of legal normativity, stimulating those who would not otherwise look outside their tradition of thought to engage with new ideas and, ultimately, to arrive at a more comprehensive account of the normativity of law.

Practical Reason and Norms

Practical Reason and Norms
Author: Joseph Raz
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1999-09-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191018589

Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All three questions are answered by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, and showing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus paving the way to a unified account of normativity. Rules are a structure of reasons to perform the required act and an exclusionary reason not to follow some competing reasons. Exclusionary reasons are explained, and used to unlock the secrets of orders, promises, and decisions as well as rules. Games are used to exemplify normative systems. Inevitably, the analysis extends to some aspects of normative discourse, which is truth-apt, but with a diminished assertoric force.

Normative Reasons

Normative Reasons
Author: Artūrs Logins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2022-08-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1316513777

The first accessible, detailed overview of the debates about normative reasons, developing a new theory based on why-questions.

The Sources of Normativity

The Sources of Normativity
Author: Christine M. Korsgaard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1996-06-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107047943

Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy. She traces their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one and comparing their early versions with those on the contemporary philosophical scene. Kant's theory that normativity springs from our own autonomy emerges as a synthesis of the other three, and Korsgaard concludes with her own version of the Kantian account. Her discussion is followed by commentary from G. A. Cohen, Raymond Geuss, Thomas Nagel, and Bernard Williams, and a reply by Korsgaard.

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.

Explaining the Normative

Explaining the Normative
Author: Stephen P. Turner
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-05-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0745642551

"Explaining the Normative is the first systematic, historically grounded critique of normativism. It identifies the standard normativist pattern of argument, and shows how this pattern depends on circularities, preferred descriptions, problematic transcendental arguments, and regress arguments ending in mysteries."--Jacket.