Legal philosophy
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The study of philosophy in law schools, and JD/PhD programs, 2025 edition
Some terminology: by “general jurisprudence,” I mean the core philosophical questions about the nature of law, the relationship between law and morality, and the nature of legal reasoning; by “normative [or “specific”] jurisprudence,” I mean the myriad philosophical attempts to make normative sense (or provide normative rationalizations) of different substantive areas of law, like torts,…
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Richard Stillman on the problem of theoretical disagreements
This will only interest my legal philosophy readers, but I do want to commend to their attention this paper by Richard Stillman, who trained as a philosopher of language with Stephen Neale before coming to Chicago to study law (and jurisprudence). He has identified something important about at least one subset of theoretical disagreements in…
People should understand what precipitated my remarks here at Leiter Reports. Also, a few replies and comments on the conversation:…