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The Question Of Hermeneutics, Timothy Stapleton Jan 1994

The Question Of Hermeneutics, Timothy Stapleton

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Law And Philosophy, Philosophy And Law, Francis J. Mootz Iii Jan 1994

Law And Philosophy, Philosophy And Law, Francis J. Mootz Iii

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A roundtable discussion about the relevance of contemporary hermeneutical philosophy for legal theory raises a foundational question often neglected in interdisciplinary articles: What is the relationship between law and philosophy? The burgeoning scholarship drawing connections between legal theory and philosophy increasingly has come under attack for displaying a naive view about the potential legitimate exchanges between philosophers and legal academics. I have written elsewhere at length about the important insights that philosophical hermeneutics can lend to jurisprudential discussions of the rule of law. In this essay, I develop my argument by stepping back and attending more generally to the connections …