Dimensions of Normativity: New Essays on Metaethics and Jurisprudence

Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "metaethics" concerns certain second-order questions about ethics-questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality. Analogously, the branch of contemporary philosophy of law that is often called "general jurisprudence" deals with certain second order questions about law- questions not in the law, but rather ones about our thought and talk about the law, and how legal facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality. Put more roughly (and using an alternative spatial metaphor), metaethics concerns a range of foundational questions about ethics, whereas general jurisprudence concerns analogous questions about law. As these characterizations suggest, the two sub-disciplines have much in common, and could be thought to run parallel to each other. Yet, the connections between the two are currently mostly ignored by philosophers, or at least under-scrutinized. The new essays collected in this book are aimed at changing this state of affairs. Dimensions of Normativity collects together works by metaethicists and legal philosophers that address a number of issues that are of common interest, with the goal of accomplishing a new rapprochement between the two sub-disciplines.

List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction David Plunkett, Scott Shapiro, and Kevin Toh 1. Peter Railton, University of Michigan 'We'll see you in court!': The Rule of Law as an Explanatory and Normative Kind 2. Nicholas Southwood, Australian National University Law as Conventional Norms 3. David Copp, University of California, Davis Legal Teleology: A Naturalist Account of the Normativity of Law 4. David Enoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Is General Jurisprudence Interesting? 5. Kathyrn Lindeman, Saint Louis University Legal Metanormativity: Lessons for and from Constitutivist Accounts in the Philosophy of Law 6. David Plunkett, Dartmouth College Robust Normativity, Morality, and Legal Positivism 7. Mitchell Berman, University of Pennsylvania Of Law and Other Artificial Normative Systems 8. George Letsas, University College London Law's Full-Blooded Normativity 9. Stephen Finlay, University of Southern California Defining Normativity 10. Kevin Toh, University College London Legal Philosophy a la carte 11. Brian Leiter, University of Chicago Theoretical Disagreements in Law: Another Look 12. Teresa Marques, Logos / University of Barcelona Hybrid Dispositionalism and the Law 13. Alex Silk, University of Birmingham Normativity in Language and Law 14. Katharina Nieswandt, Concordia University Authority and Interest in the Theory of Right 15. Luis Duarte d'Almeida, University of Edinburgh On the Legal Syllogism 16. Sam Shpall, University of Sydney Dworkin's Literary Analogy 17. Connie Rosati, University of Arizona Constitutional Realism Index