Synopses & Reviews
The volume brings together a collection of original papers on some of the main tenets of Joseph Raz's legal and political philosophy: Legal positivism and the nature of law, practical reason, authority, the value of equality, incommensurability, harm, group rights, and multiculturalism.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Bibliography of the works of Joseph Raz": p. [275]-278).
About the Author
Meyer: UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN, Full-Time University Assistant in Political Philosophy (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), 1995- (on leave 2000-02), FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, Teaching Assistant in Law and Politics (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter), 1990-92 and 1994-95; Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow of Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung in moral and political philosophy in residence at the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW (Visiting Scholar), 2001-02; HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Center for Ethics and the Professions, Faculty Fellow in Ethics, 2000-01; BALLIOL COLLEGE, Oxford, Senior Research Associate, Fall 1990, Spring 1991; SECRETARIAT OF THE UNITED NATIONS, New York, Department of Disarmament Affairs, Internship, Summer 1987 Pogge: Since receiving his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard, Thomas W. Pogge has been teaching moral and political philosophy at Columbia University. His recent publications include "What We Can Reasonably Reject" (NOÛS 2002), "Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend" (Journal of Human Development), "Achieving Democracy" (Ethics and International Affairs), "How Should Human Rights be Conceived?" (in Hayden, ed.: The Philosophy of Human Rights 2001), "Human Flourishing and Universal Justice" (Social Philosophy and Policy 1999). Pogge's work was supported, most recently, by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Stanley Paulson: Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, St Louis
Table of Contents
Foreword Introduction
Issues in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy: The Nature of Law, Practical Reason, Authority, Sources of and Gaps in the Law
1. The Nature of Arguments about the Nature of Law, Robert Alexy
2. Stronger Reasons, Rüdiger Bittner
3. Are Reasons for Action Beliefs?, Bruno Celano
4. Authority for Officials, Jeremy Waldron
5. Legal Reasoning and the Authority of Law, J. E. Penner
6. Raz on Gaps, Timothy Endicott
Perspectives on Liberal Society: Equality, Incommensurability, Group Rights, and Multiculturalism
7. Equality, Incommensurability, and Rights, Hillel Steiner
8. The Intrinsic Value of Economic Equality, Andrei Marmor
9. Past and Future, Lukas H. Meyer
10. Group Rights, James Griffin
11. Against Collective Rights, Yael Tamir
12. Understanding Multiculturalism, Bernhard Peters
13. Liberal Theories of Multiculturalism, Will Kymlicka
Joseph Raz: Response
Bibliography of the Works of Joseph Raz