Naturalizing Jurisprudence Essays on American Legal Realism and Naturalism in Legal Philosophy

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Pub. Date: 2007-05-17
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Summary

Brian Leiter is widely recognized as the leading philosophical interpreter of the jurisprudence of American Legal Realism, and the most influential proponent of the relevance of the naturalistic turn in philosophy to the problems of legal philosophy. Naturalizing Jurisprudence collects newly revised versions of ten of his best-known essays. Leiter has supplied a lengthy new introductory essay, as well as postscripts to several of the essays, in which he responds to challenges to his interpretive and philosophical claims by academic lawyers and philosophers. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law.

Author Biography


Brian Leiter is Hines H. Baker & Thelma Kelley Baker Chair and Director of the Law and Philosophy Program, The University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

Acknowledgementsp. vii
Sourcesp. ix
Introduction: From Legal Realism to Naturalized Jurisprudencep. 1
A Note on Legal Indeterminacyp. 9
American Legal Realism and Its Critics
Rethinking Legal Realism: Toward a Naturalized Jurisprudence (1997)p. 15
Legal Realism and Legal Positivism Reconsidered (2001)p. 59
Is There an "American" Jurisprudence? (1997)p. 81
Interpreting Legal Realismp. 103
Ways of Naturalizing Jurisprudence
Legal Realism, Hard Positivism, and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis (1998, 2001)p. 121
Why Quine is Not a Postmodernist (1997)p. 137
Beyond the Hart/Dworkin Debate: The Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence (2003)p. 153
Science and Methodology in Legal Theoryp. 183
Naturalism, Morality, and Objectivity
Moral Facts and Best Explanations (2001)p. 203
Objectivity, Morality, and Adjudication (2001)p. 225
Law and Objectivity (2002)p. 257
Indexp. 277
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