Law and Truth |
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| Author:
| Patterson, Dennis |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-508323-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1996 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $65.00 |
Book Description:
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Patterson applies the modern debate between Realism and Anti-realism to the question of the nature of law. Starting from the question "what is legal knowledge?" he examines the answers provided by the principal contemporary theories of jurisprudence, concluding that they are all inextricably bound up with the nature of justification. He concludes with a novel account of legal knowledge as pragmatism.
Patterson applies the modern debate between Realism and Anti-realism to the question of the nature of law. Starting from the question "what is legal knowledge?" he examines the answers provided by the principal contemporary theories of jurisprudence, concluding that they are all inextricably bound up with the nature of justification. He concludes with a novel account of legal knowledge as pragmatism.