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Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Three Approaches

Brian Leiter
University of Chicago Law School


THE FUTURE OF NATURALISM, J. Shook & P. Kurtz, eds., Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2009
U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 246

Abstract:     
General jurisprudence - that branch of legal philosophy concerned with the nature of law and adjudication - has been relatively unaffected by the "naturalistic" strains so evident, for example, in the epistemology, philosophy of mind and moral philosophy of the past forty years. This paper sketches three ways in which naturalism might affect jurisprudential inquiry. The paper serves as a kind of precis of the main themes in my book NATURALIZING JURISPRUDENCE: ESSAYS ON AMERICAN LEGAL REALISM AND NATURALISM IN LEGAL PHILOSOPHY (Oxford University Press, 2007).

Keywords: jurisprudence, naturalism, legal realism, quine, epistemology

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Date posted: October 28, 2008 ; Last revised: November 17, 2008

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Leiter, Brian, Naturalizing Jurisprudence: Three Approaches (October 23, 2008). THE FUTURE OF NATURALISM, J. Shook & P. Kurtz, eds., Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2009; U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 246. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1288643


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