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Paperback. Condition: New. Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop fresh positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism and the explanation of actions by beliefs. This collection honours one of the most rigourous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.…

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Condition: New. This collection of essays honours one of the most rigourous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers. Editor(s): Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter; Raffman, Diana; Asher, Nicholas. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2009. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . …

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Condition: New. This collection of essays honours one of the most rigourous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers. Editor(s): Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter; Raffman, Diana; Asher, Nicholas. Num Pages: 292 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 460. . 2009. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2016 OUP hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Vague expressions are omnipresent in natural language. As such, their use in legal texts is virtually inevitable. If a law contains vague terms, the question whether it applies to a particular case often lacks a clear answer. One of the fundamental pillars of the rule of law is legal certainty. The determinacy of the law enables people to use it as a guide and places judges in the position to decide impartially. Vagueness poses a threat to these ideals. In borderline cases, the law seems to be indeterminate and thus incapable of serving its core rule of law value. In the philosophy of language, vagueness has become one of the hottest topics of the last two decades. Linguists and philosophers have investigated what distinguishes "soritical " vagueness from other kinds of linguistic indeterminacy, such as ambiguity, generality, open texture, and family resemblance concepts. There is a vast literature that discusses the logical, semantic, pragmatic, and epistemic aspects of these phenomena. Legal theory has hitherto paid little attention to the differences between the various kinds of linguistic indeterminacy that are grouped under the heading of "vagueness ", let alone to the various theories that try to account for these phenomena. Bringing together leading scholars working on the topic of vagueness in philosophy and in law, this book fosters a dialogue between philosophers and legal scholars by examining how philosophers conceive vagueness in law from their theoretical perspective and how legal theorists make use of philosophical theories of vagueness. The chapters of the book are organized into three parts. The first part addresses the import of different theories of vagueness for the law, referring to a wide range of theories from supervaluationist to contextualist and semantic realist accounts in order to address the question of whether the law can learn from engaging with philosophical discussions of vagueness. The second part of the book examines different vagueness phenomena. The contributions in part 2 suggest that the greater awareness to different vagueness phenomena can make lawyers aware of specific issues and solutions so far overlooked. The third part deals with the pragmatic aspects of vagueness in law, providing answers to the question of how to deal with vagueness in law and with the professional, political, moral, and ethical issues such vagueness gives rise to. List of Contributors Vagueness and Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives - Geert Keil and Ralf Poscher I. THEORIES OF VAGUENESS AND THEIR IMPACT ON JURISPRUDENCE 1. Philosophical and Jurisprudential Issues of Vagueness - Stephen Schiffer 2. Vagueness in Law: Placing the Blame Where It's Due - Diana Raffman 3. An Intentionalist Account of Vagueness: A Legal Perspective - Ralf Poscher 4. Can Legal Practice Adjudicate Between Theories of Vagueness? - Hrafn Asgeirsson 5. Semantics, Metaphysics, and Objectivity in the Law - Michael S. Moore II. VAGUENESS PHENOMENA IN LAW 6. Pragmatic Vagueness in Statutory Law - Andrei Marmor 7. Second-Order Vagueness in the Law - Frederick Schauer 8. The Non-Conservativeness of Legal Definitions - Marc Andree Weber 9. The Role of Vagueness and Context Sensitivity in Legal Interpretation - Nikola Kompa III. DEALING WITH VAGUENESS IN LAW 10. Why It Is So Difficult to Resolve Vagueness in Legal Interpretation - Lawrence M. Solan 11. Vagueness and Political Choice in Law - Brian H. Bix 12. Non-Epistemic Uncertainty and the Problem of Legal Line Drawing - Leo Katz 13. Smoothing Vague Laws - Adam J. Kolber 14. How Vagueness Makes Judges Lie - Roy Sorensen 15. Clarity, Thoughtfulness, and the Rule of Law - Jeremy Waldron.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Vague words, like "tall," "rich," and "old," lack clear boundaries of application: no clear line divides the tall people from the above average, or the old people from the middle-aged. Because they lack clear boundaries, these ordinary words cause logical and semantic problems in various disciplines including philosophy, decision theory, and the law. Philosophers and linguists have proposed several theories of vagueness to handle these difficulties, but none has been widely accepted.Raffman contends that virtually all previous treatments of vagueness have made two crucial mistakes: they have supposed that a semantic (non-epistemic) theory must abandon bivalence, and they have paid insufficient attention to the character of ordinary speech using vague words. She develops a new theory of vagueness-the multiple range theory-that corrects both of these errors. The new theory begins with the observation that ordinary speakers seem to apply vague words in multiple arbitrarily different but equally competent ways, even when all contextual factors are held fixed. Raffman interprets this feature of their use as evidence of multiple ranges of application in the semantics of vague words, where a range of application is a range of properties whose instances satisfy the word in question; for example, a range of application of "tall" is a range of heights, a range of "old" a range of ages, and so forth. The fundamental idea is that a vague word has multiple ranges of application, and applies to things relative to those ranges, even given a single fixed context. The fact that the ranges of a vague word are arbitrarily different-there is no reason to favor any particular one-is key to solving the notorious sorites paradox.The multiple range theory preserves bivalence and is more intuitive than other approaches. It is also simpler; for instance, it has no need of a definiteness operator, and it rules out the possibility of higher-order borderline cases, both of which introduce severe complications into other accounts. Some of the evidence Raffman draws upon in constructing her theory comes from a new psychological study of the way ordinary speakers actually use vague words.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Modality, morality and belief are among the most controversial topics in philosophy and few philosophers have shaped these debates as deeply as Ruth Barcan Marcus. Inspired by her work, a distinguished group of philosophers explore these issues, refine and sharpen arguments and develop fresh positions on such topics as possible worlds, moral dilemmas, essentialism and the explanation of actions by beliefs. This collection honours one of the most rigourous and iconoclastic of philosophical pioneers.…