Philosophical foundations of language in the law /

"This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of...

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Other Authors: Marmor, Andrei, Soames, Scott
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Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
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245 0 0 |a Philosophical foundations of language in the law /  |c editors, Andrei Marmor, Scott Soames 
260 |a Oxford ;  |a New York :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c 2011 
300 |a viii, 272 p. ;  |c 25 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-264) and index 
505 0 |a Introduction -- The Value of Vagueness / Timothy Endicott -- What Vagueness and Inconsistency tell us about Interpretation / Scott Soames -- Vagueness and the Guidance of Action / Jeremy Waldron -- Can the Law Imply More than It Says? On Some Pragmatic Aspects of Strategic Speech / Andrei Marmor -- Textualism and the Discovery of Rights / John Perry -- Textualism, Intentionalism, and the Law of the Contract / Gideon Rosen -- Modeling Legal Rules / Richard Holton -- Trying to Kill the Dead : De Dicto and De Re Intention in Attempted Crimes / Gideon Yaffe -- Legislation as Communication? Legal Interpretation and the Study of Linguistic Communication / Mark Greenberg 
520 |a "This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from philosophy of language to their work on the nature of law and legal interpretation. By making this body of recent work available in a single volume, readers will gain both a general overview of the various interactions between language and law, and also detailed analyses of particular areas in which these interactions manifest. The contributions to this volume are grouped under three main general areas: The first area concerns a critical assessment, in light of recent advances in philosophy of language, of the foundational role of language in understanding the nature of law itself. The second main area concerns a number of ways in which an understanding of language can resolve some of the issues prevalent in legal interpretation, such as the various ways in which semantic content can differ from law's assertive content; the contribution of presuppositions and pragmatic implicatures in understanding what the law conveys; the role of vagueness in legal language, for example. The third general topic concerns the role of language in the context of particular legal doctrines and legal solutions to practical problems, such as the legal definitions of inchoate crimes, the legal definition of torture, or the contractual doctrines concerning default rules. Together, these three key issues cover a wide range of philosophical interests in law that can be elucidated by a better understanding of language and linguistic communication"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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