Problems of Normativity, Rules and Rule-Following

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Rules, Norms and Principles: A Conceptual Framework....Pages 3-11
Separating Rules from Normativity....Pages 13-29
Communalism, Correction and Nihilistic Solitary Rule-Following Arguments....Pages 31-46
Knowing Way Too Much: A Case Against Semantic Phenomenology....Pages 47-55
The Meaning of Normativity of Meaning....Pages 57-66
On the Kantian Answer to “Kripkenstein”’s Rule-following Paradox....Pages 67-82
Rules as Patterns Between Normativism and Naturalism....Pages 83-93
Normativity and Rationality: Framing the Problem....Pages 95-112
Rules and Rights....Pages 113-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Rules and Normativity in Law....Pages 125-146
Obligation: A Legal-Theoretical Perspective....Pages 147-163
On Obligations, Norms and Rules....Pages 165-176
Philosophy, Neuroscience and Law: The Conceptual and Empirical, Rule-Following, Interpretation and Knowledge....Pages 177-188
Gunman Situation Vicious Circle and Pure Theory of Law....Pages 189-198
Rules as Reason-Giving Facts: A Difference-Making-Based Account of the Normativity of Rules....Pages 199-213
Rules, Conventionalism and Normativity: Some Remarks Starting from Hart....Pages 215-227
Are Fundamental Legal Reasons Internal? A Few Remarks on the Hartian Idea of the Internal Point of View....Pages 229-239
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
The Normativity of Rules of Interpretation....Pages 243-254
Legal Interpretation as a Rule-Guided Phenomenon....Pages 255-264
To Whom Does the Law Speak? Canvassing a Neglected Picture of Law’s Interpretive Field....Pages 265-280
Front Matter....Pages 241-241
Inerpretation and Rule Following in Law. The Complexity of Easy Cases....Pages 281-293
The Ordinary Meaning of Rules....Pages 295-317
Blindly Following the Rules: Revisiting the Claritas Doctrine....Pages 319-329
Why Legal Rules Are Not Speech Acts and What Follows from That?....Pages 331-339
The Validity of Moral Rules and Principles as a Legal Problem....Pages 341-349
Implicatures Within the Legal Context: A Rule-Based Analysis of the Possible Content of Conversational Maxims in Law....Pages 351-362
Why are Words not Enough? Or a Few Remarks on Traffic Signs....Pages 363-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
In Defense of the Expressive Conception of Norms....Pages 375-394
Rule-Following and Logic....Pages 395-402
Negating Rules....Pages 403-413
Legal Rules: Defeasible or Indefeasible?....Pages 415-431
The Role of Argumentation Theory in the Logics of Judgements....Pages 433-444
Towards Multidimensional Rule Visualizations....Pages 445-455