The Problems of Jurisprudence (Paper) (OISC)

Preface xi Introduction: The Birth of Law and the Rise of Jurisprudence 1(3) The Origins of Law and Jurisprudence 4(5) A Short History of Jurisprudence 9(15) A Preview of the Book 24(13) PART I. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF LAW Law as Logic, Rules, and Science 37(34) The Syllogism and Other Methods of Logic 38(4) Rules, Standards, and Discretion 42(19) Scientific Observation 61(10) Legal Reasoning as Practical Reasoning 71(30) What Is Practical Reason? 71(8) Authority 79(7) Reasoning by Analogy 86(12) A Note on Legal Education 98(3) Other Illustrations of Practical Reasoning in Law 101(23) Interpretation 101(4) Means-End Rationality 105(3) Tacit Knowing 108(4) Submitting to the Test of Time 112(12) Legitimacy in Adjudication 124(37) The Problem of Rational Prejudgment 124(1) Consensus 125(5) Policy versus Pedigree as Warrants for Judicial Action 130(18) How Are Judges' Visions Changed? 148(5) Critical Legal Studies 153(8) PART II. THE ONTOLOGY OF LAW Ontology, the Mind, and Behaviorism 161(36) Ontological Skepticism 161(6) Mental and Other Metaphysical Entities in Law 167(19) Behaviorism and the Judicial Perspective 186(11) Are There Right Answers to Legal Questions? 197(23) Questions of Law 197(6) Questions of Fact 203(17) What Is Law, and Why Ask? 220(27) Is It a Body of Rules or Principles, an Activity, or Both? 220(19) Holmes, Nietzsche, and Pragmatism 239(8) PART III. INTERPRETATION REVISITED Common Law versus Statute Law 247(15) Objectivity in Statutory Interpretation 262(24) The Plain-Meaning Fallacy 262(7) The Quest for Interpretive Theory 269(9) Indeterminate Statutory Cases 278(8) How to Decide Statutory and Constitutional Cases 286(27) Is Communication Ever Possible? 293(6) Beyond Interpretation 299(3) A Case Study of Politics and Pragmatism 302(11) PART IV. SUBSTANTIVE JUSTICE Corrective, Retributive, Procedural, and Distributive Justice 313(40) Corrective Justice and the Rule of Law 313(17) A Note on Retributive Justice-and on Rights 330(2) Formal Justice 332(2) Distributive Justice 334(14) What Has Moral Philosophy to Offer Law? 348(5) The Economic Approach to Law 353(40) The Approach 353(9) Criticisms of the Positive Theory 362(12) Criticisms of the Normative Theory 374(13) Common Law Revisited 387(6) Literary, Feminist, and Communitarian Perspectives on Jurisprudence 393(30) Law and Literature 393(11) Natural Law and Feminist Jurisprudence 404(10) Communitarianism 414(9) PART V. JURISPRUDENCE WITHOUT FOUNDATIONS Neotraditionalism 423(31) The Decline of Law as an Autonomous Discipline 424(9) The Neotraditionalist Response 433(21) A Pragmatist Manifesto 454(17) Index 471