Interpretation without Truth A Realistic Enquiry /

• Main Author: Chiassoni, Pierluigi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Law and Philosophy Library, 128
• Subjects: Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.

This book engages in an analytical and realistic enquiry into legal interpretation and a selection of related matters including legal gaps, judicial fictions, judicial precedent, legal defeasibility, and legislation. Chapter 1 provides an outline of the central theoretical and methodological tenets...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The Path of Analytical Realism
• 2. Interpretation, Truth, and the Logical Forms of Interpretive Discourse
• 3. Interpretive Games
• 4. Taking Context Seriously
• 5. Frames v. Containers
• 6. Towards Pragmatic Realism
• 7. Legal Gaps
• 8. Judicial Fictions
• 9. Precedent
• 10. Defeasibility and Legal Indeterminacy
• 11. Legislation.