Pragmatism, Law, and Language

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. Introduction / Graham Hubbs -- A Hegelian Model Of Legal Concept Determination : The Normative Fine Structure Of The Judges' Chain Novel / Robert B. Brandom -- Soarmes, Legislative Intent, And The Meaning Of A Statute / Barbara Baum Levenbook -- Antipositivist Arguments From Legal Thought And Talk : The Metalinguist Response / David Plunkett And Tim Sundell -- Appellate Adjudication As Conceptual Engineering / Heidi Li Feldman -- Responsibility And Causation : A Pragmatist View / Daniele Santoro -- Attitudinal Expressivism And Logical Pragmatism In Metaethics / Matthew Chrisman -- Quasi-realism, Projectivism, And The Explanatory Challenge / Karl Schafer -- Studying Genocide : A Pragmatist Approach To Action-engendering Discourse / Lynne Tirrell -- Deweyan Democracy And The Absence Of Justice / Robert B. Talisse -- Truth, Justice, And The American Way / F. Thomas Burke -- Pragmatism, Democratic Experimentalism, And Law / Brian E. Butler -- Joan Williams, Legal Pragmatism, And The Injustice Of Work-family Conflict / Katherine Logan -- Legal Pragmatism And Legal Pragmaticism / Benjamin C. Zipursky -- Pragmatism Without The Fighting Tag : Functional Realism In Holmes's Jurisprudence And Moral Philosophy / Seth Vannatta -- Against Legal Pragmatism : Greenberg And The Priority Of The Moral / Sari Kisilevsky -- Four Qualms About Legal Pragmatism / Martin J. Stone. Edited By Graham Hubbs And Douglas Lind. Earlier Versions Of The Essays In This Volume Were Presented At The Fifteenth Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference (inpc), Held March 22-24, 2012, In Moscow, Idaho--acknowledgements. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.