Searle has further developed the theory of speech acts, and his work has had interdisciplinary influence
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Joseph Raz's famous theory of authority is grounded in three claims about the nature and justification of authority. According to the Preemption Thesis, authoritative directives purport to replace the subject's judgments about what she should do.…
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Legal terms, such as "ownership," "contract," "validity," "negligence," are used as middle terms in legal deduction. The paper distinguishes two problems regarding this use. One is the logical function of terms for deduction within a normative…
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THE IDEA THAT SOME REASONS FOR ACTING ARE EXCLUSIONARY SEEMS TO PROVIDE A WAY OF SHOWING WHY IN SOME CASES IT IS NO GOOD JUST WEIGHING UP THE REASONS FOR AND AGAINST DOING SOMETHING. THE LAW FORBIDDING ROBBERY, FOR INSTANCE, IS NOT REGARDED BY…
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In this article the author adduces a nonpositivist argument for a necessary connection between law and morality; the argument is based on the claim to correctness, and it is directed to an attack stemming from Eugenio Bulygin. The heart of the…
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My purpose here is to examine the question of how the law can be incorporated within morality and how the existence of the law can impinge on our moral rights and duties, a question (or questions) which is a central aspect of the broad question of…
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This paper criticizes Alexy's argument on the necessary connection between law and morality. First of all, the author discusses some aspects of the notion of the claim to correctness. Basically, it is highly doubtful that all legal authorities share…
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In arguing that the alleged distinction between descriptive and evaluative statements needs to be re-examined, searle examines a counterexample to the thesis that one cannot derive an "ought" from an "is." in the counterexample he derives "jones…
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Professor Hart defends the Positivist school of jurisprudence from many of the criticisms which have been leveled against its insistence on distinguishing the law that is from the law that ought to be. He first insists that the critics have confused…
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The author discusses the relation between description and 'brute facts'. When we are told a description of some event we can ask what the brute facts were (or "facts which held"), And use them to verify the description as true or false. (staff)
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Introduction : diversity and disciplinarity in international relations theory Steve Smith - International relations and social science Mitja Kurki and Colin Wight - International relations as political theory Chris Brown - Classical realism Richard…
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