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Vagueness and Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives by Geert Keil (English)
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- ISBN-13
- 9780198782889
- Book Title
- Vagueness and Law
- ISBN
- 9780198782889
- Publication Year
- 2016
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- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Vagueness and Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives
- Item Height
- 239mm
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Item Width
- 176mm
- Subject
- Law
- Item Weight
- 684g
- Number of Pages
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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.
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Oxford University Press
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9780198782889
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Publication Name
Vagueness and Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Law
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
352 Pages
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239mm
Item Width
176mm
Item Weight
684g
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Popular Philosophy
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Geert Keil, Ralf Poscher
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United Kingdom
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