This volume represents the main papers delivered by both prominent and rising philosophers at the 1999 SOFIA conference in Mazatlan, Mexico. The volume contains twenty substantial papers spanning important issues of current interest including sexuality and consent, rights and scarcity, democracy and individualism, and the nature of law and the value of punishment.
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This volume contains 20 papers on the philosophy of law and social philosophy composed by today's most prominent philosophers and scholars. Leading scholars have contributed original papers representative of their current work, as have some younger philosophers rising to prominence.
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I ETHICS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY.

1 “I Thought She Consented” (Marcia W. Baron).

2 Against Constitutive Incommensurability or Buying and Selling Friends (Ruth Chang).

3 Law and Social Order (Russell Hardin).

4 Rapes Without Rapists: Consent and Reasonable Mistake (Douglas N. Husak and George C. Thomas III).

5 What We Can Reasonably Reject (Thomas W. Pogge).

6 A Place for Cost-Benefit Analysis (David Schmidtz).

II POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

7 Against Rights (Richard J. Arneson).

8 Managing Scarcity: Toward a More Political Theory of Justice (Robert E. Goodin).

9 A Critique of Philip Pettit's Republicanism (Charles Larmore).

10 Classical Realism (Brian Leiter).

11 Deliberative Democracy and the Discursive Dilemma (Philip Pettit).

12 On the Territorial Rights of States (A. John Simmons).

13 Inequality: A Complex, Individualistic, and Comparative Notion (Larry S. Temkin).

III LEGAL PHILOSOPHY.

14 The Conventioanlity Thesis (Jules L. Coleman).

15 Egalitarianism and the Problem of Tort Liability (Michael L. Corrado).

16 Reconciling Autonomy and Efficiency in Contract Law: The Vertical Integration Strategy (Jody S. Kraus).

17 The Judicial Community (Christopher Kutz).

18 Law as Command: The Model of Command in Modern Jurisprudence (Gerald J. Posterna).

19 Criminal Justice and Legal Reparations as an Alternative to Punishment (Geoffrey Sayre-McCord).

20 Judicial Can’t (Scott J. Shapiro).

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This volume represents the main papers delivered by both prominent and rising philosophers at the 1999 SOFIA conference in Mazatlan, Mexico. The volume contains 20 substantial papers spanning important issues of current interest including sexuality and consent, rights and scarcity, democracy and individualism, and the nature of law and the value of punishment.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780631230267
Publisert
2003-01-08
Utgiver
Vendor
Wiley-Blackwell
Vekt
771 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
28 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, P, UP, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
568

Biografisk notat

Ernest Sosa is a Professor of Philosophy at Brown University and Rutgers University. He is author of Knowledge in Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1991) and of papers in metaphysics and epistemology.

Enrique Villanueva is a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Investigaciones Juridicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is author of papers and books in philosophy of mind and history of philosophy, and editor of Philosophical Issues from 1992 to 2000.