Hart Herbert Lionel Adolphus 1907 (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. xxxi, 396 pp. Original cloth. Very Good+, in dust jacket. Library of Ideas.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. OXFORD : 1968. Paperback. Orange printed covers. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. Minor wear only. VERY GOOD. (ix), 271 pages. Includes bibliographical notes. Index. ISBN 0198251807 (though; 0198251817 printed on the book cover). SCARCE. CONTENTS: Prolegomenon to the principles of punishment -- Legal responsibility and excuses -- Murder and the principles of punishment : England and the United States -- Acts of will and responsibility -- Intention and punishment -- Negligence, Mens Rea, and criminal responsibility -- Punishment and the elimination of responsibility -- Changing conceptions of responsibility -- Postscript : responsibility and retribution. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. James O. Urmson's copy of the First Edition, with his ink signature 'Urmson' on front flyleaf. xxxii, 454 pp, 1 leaf. Original cloth. Some marginal pencilling, else Near Fine, without dust jacket. A fine association copy, linking two members of the Oxford school of philosophy. Urmson: Emeritus Professor of Stanford University and an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Author of Philosophical Analysis and The Emotive Theory of Ethics, and editor of The Encyclopaedia of Western Philosophy. Stanford published a festschrift for Urmson in 1988, Human Agency: Language, and Duty, and Value: Philosophical Essays in Honor of J. O. Urmson (by Jonathan Dancy, J. M. E. Moravcsik, C. C. W. Taylor). Urmson edited the Philosophical Papers of John L. Austin (1911-1960), one of Hart's greatest influences, as well as Austin's How to Do Things With Words. 'By 1945, Ayer later wrote, 'the philosophical climate had undergone a drastic change. It was not just that the older men had died or retired; their outlook had vanished with them. Leading members of the 'Wee Teas' (by now virtually the senior generation) and of the Berlin-Austin group, together with an influx of newly appointed fellows and lecturers, some from Wittgenstein's circle (Waismann, Paul, Anscombe, Toulmin), some of pre-war vintage (H. L. A. Hart, J. O. Urmson, Strawson), some of immediate post-war provenance (R. M. Hare, D. F. Pears), G. J. Warnock), transformed philosophy in Britain and affected the practice of philosophy throughout the English-speaking world . . . Among those who attended [Austin's] 'Saturday mornings' over the years were Marcus Dick, Grice, Hampshire, Hare, Hart, P. H. Nowell-Smith, Paul, Pears, Strawson, Urmson, Warnock and A. D. Woozley' (P. M. S. Hacker, Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy, 1996, pp. 148-9, 151). Hart biographer Nicola Lacey 'describes Hart's early work, as illustrated by Causation in the Law, as the careful unpacking of legal and philosophical concepts to demonstrate their contextual and professional use. Hart and Honoré argued that the concept of causation in law is neither purely 'scientific', as in physics, nor a rubric whose purpose is to allocate legal responsibility on policy grounds. Instead, they contended it is a distinctive blend of legal doctrines informed by both scientific analogies and policy considerations. Its meaning can only be understood through application. The normative implications of this approach were to advance an intermediate position between those who believed that legal doctrines were open-ended and dictated by a combination of ideology, power, and policy-driven legal rules, and those who believed that legal actors were significantly constrained by the integrity of timeless principles of law' (G. Edward White, 'Getting Close to H. L. A. Hart', review of Lacey, A Life of H L A Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, 2004, for Melbourne University Law Review, 2005).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Entire issue offered. Original printed wrappers. Near Fine. Full contents may be found on the Mind page at the Oxford Journals Web site. This paper is frequently cited in the literature and was reprinted in Dale Jacquette, ed., Philosophical Entrees (McGraw-Hill, 2000) and perhaps elsewhere. Directly beneath the heading 'VII. The Presumption of Uncertainty' in his 'Agency and Omniscience' (Religious Studies 27 (1991): 105-120), Tomis Kapitan writes, 'It would be wrong to assume that a deliberator cannot know in advance what he will do or choose; as previously indicated, agents can forget what they are already committed to and, therefore, what they already know they will do (see note 2). At the same time, decision does seem to involve passing from a state of uncertainty into a kind of knowledge' (citing Hampshire and Hart for making the latter claim). [a.c.].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket (unclipped).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xxxii, 454 pp, 1 leaf. Original cloth. Very Good+, in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, a few small chips). 'By 1945, Ayer later wrote, 'the philosophical climate had undergone a drastic change. It was not just that the older men had died or retired; their outlook had vanished with them. Leading members of the 'Wee Teas' (by now virtually the senior generation) and of the Berlin-Austin group, together with an influx of newly appointed fellows and lecturers, some from Wittgenstein's circle (Waismann, Paul, Anscombe, Toulmin), some of pre-war vintage (H. L. A. Hart, J. O. Urmson, Strawson), some of immediate post-war provenance (R. M. Hare, D. F. Pears), G. J. Warnock), transformed philosophy in Britain and affected the practice of philosophy throughout the English-speaking world . . . Among those who attended [Austin's] 'Saturday mornings' over the years were Marcus Dick, Grice, Hampshire, Hare, Hart, P. H. Nowell-Smith, Paul, Pears, Strawson, Urmson, Warnock and A. D. Woozley' (P. M. S. Hacker, Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy, 1996, pp. 148-9, 151). Hart biographer Nicola Lacey 'describes Hart's early work, as illustrated by Causation in the Law, as the careful unpacking of legal and philosophical concepts to demonstrate their contextual and professional use. Hart and Honoré argued that the concept of causation in law is neither purely 'scientific', as in physics, nor a rubric whose purpose is to allocate legal responsibility on policy grounds. Instead, they contended it is a distinctive blend of legal doctrines informed by both scientific analogies and policy considerations. Its meaning can only be understood through application. The normative implications of this approach were to advance an intermediate position between those who believed that legal doctrines were open-ended and dictated by a combination of ideology, power, and policy-driven legal rules, and those who believed that legal actors were significantly constrained by the integrity of timeless principles of law' (G. Edward White, 'Getting Close to H. L. A. Hart', review of Lacey, A Life of H L A Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, 2004, for Melbourne University Law Review, 2005).

Blue Cloth. Condition: Near Fine Book. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + DJ. 1st Edition. X, 263 Pp. First Edition, Stated Sixth Printing 1972, With Hart's Newly Added Notes On P. 272, A "Selective Guide To The Principle Criticisms Of The Views Expressed In The Book And To The Most Illuminating Modifications Or Developments Of Them Suggested By My Critics". The Most Important Work By A Preeminent 20Th Century Legal Scholar. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket Priced L2.50. Hart's Analysis, A Classic, Is Superb For Philosophers Of Law, For Those Who Think Law Is A Matter Of Protection Of Property Holdings, And The Intellectualized Elites, But Is Not Helpful For 21St Century Public Policy Workers Interested In Writing Law As Specific (More Or Less Consensual) Agreements On The Organization Of Law Enforcement For The Purposes Of Common Safety, Health, And General Welfare; It Provides No Guidance For Writing Individual Laws Which Are Clear, Simple, Effective, Efficient, And Must Be Fairly Enforced; A Statement Of Law As A Literary Speculation, Without Anchor In The Physicality Of The Real World.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition, first printing. 28 pp. Original printed wrappers. Near Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Original cloth. Very Good+, in dust jacket. 'The Concept of Law is the most important and original work of legal philosophy written this century. First published in 1961, it is considered the masterpiece of H.L.A. Hart's enormous contribution to the study of jurisprudence and legal philosophy. Its elegant language and balanced arguments have sparked wide debate and unprecedented growth in the quantity and quality of scholarship in this area--much of it devoted to attacking or defending Hart's theories. Principal among Hart's critics is renowned lawyer and political philosopher Ronald Dworkin who in the 1970s and 80s mounted a series of challenges to Hart's Concept of Law. It seemed that Hart let these challenges go unanswered until, after his death in 1992, his answer to Dworkin's criticism was discovered among his papers' (Clarendon Press Web site). 'With the publication of The Concept of Law in 1961, Hart's reputation was assured. Although some of the book built on themes from his debates with Lon Fuller and on his earlier writings about legal language, the book represented Hart's first comprehensive effort to understand the phenomenon of law from a philosophical perspective. This effort yielded numerous insights about the nature of rules, the structure and foundations of a legal system, the sources of law, and the character of legal obligation. It was Hart's lasting achievement, and although he also did pathbreaking work on the legal enforcement of morality, on causation, on Bentham, on the nature of authority, on punishment, and on various other topics, it is The Concept of Law that is his signal work. Indeed, it is The Concept of Law that explains why Hart can be the subject of a lengthy biography and why that lengthy biography can be the topic for an essay in the Harvard Law Review' (Frederick Schauer, '(Re)taking Hart', review of Nicola Lacey, A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, Oxford, 2004, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, 2006, pp. 852-883). Dworkin wrote a response to Schauer, 'Hart and the Concepts of Law' (Harvard Law Review, Issue 119, Jan. 2006, Forum 267).