ABSTRACT
This volume puts leading pragmatists in the philosophy of language, including Robert Brandom, in contact with scholars concerned with what pragmatism has come to mean for the law. Each contribution uses the resources of pragmatism to tackle fundamental problems in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of law, and social and political philosophy. In many chapters, the version of pragmatism deployed proves a fruitful approach to its subject matter; in others, shortcomings of the specific brand of pragmatism are revealed. The result is a clearer understanding of what pragmatism has meant and can mean across these tightly related philosophical areas. The book, then, is itself pragmatism in action: it seeks to clarify its unifying concept by examining the practices that centrally involve it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|156 pages
Semantic Pragmatism
section Section 1|98 pages
Semantic Pragmatism about Legal Discourse
chapter 1|21 pages
A Hegelian Model of Legal Concept Determination
chapter 3|20 pages
Antipositivist Arguments from Legal Thought and Talk
section Section 2|56 pages
Semantic Pragmatism about Other Forms of Normative Discourse
part II|134 pages
The American Pragmatist Tradition
section Section 3|62 pages
Democracy and Classical American Pragmatism
section Section 4|70 pages
Pragmatism in Contemporary American Jurisprudence