Naturalizing jurisprudence : essays on American legal realism and naturalism in legal philosophy
"This volume collects newly revised versions of nine of Brian Leiter's best-known essays. The volume also includes 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 will be essential reading for anyone interested in jurisprudence, as well as for philosophers concerned with the consequences of naturalism in moral and legal philosophy."--Jacket
viii, 287 pages ; 24 cm
9780199299010, 9780199206490, 0199299013, 019920649X
74966557
Introduction: From legal realism to naturalized jurisprudence
A note on legal indeterminacy
Part I. American legal realism and its critics
Rethinking legal realism: toward a naturalized jurisprudence (1997)
Legal realism and legal positivism reconsidered (2001)
Is there an "American" jurisprudence? (1997)
Postscript to Part I: Interpreting legal realism
Part II. Ways of naturalizing jurisprudence
Legal realism, hard positivism, and the limits of conceptual analysis (1998, 2001)
Why Quine is not a postmodernist (1997)
Beyond the Hart/Dworkin debate: the methodology problem in jurisprudence (2003)
Part III. Naturalism, morality, and objectivity
Moral facts and best explanations (2001)
Objectivity, morality, and adjudication (2001)
Law and objectivity (2002)