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Consequences of Pragmatic Conceptualism: On the Methodology Problem in Jurisprudence
Author(s) -
CANALE DAMIANO
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.2009.00419.x
Subject(s) - conceptualism , epistemology , jurisprudence , relation (database) , meaning (existential) , sociology , subject (documents) , philosophy , law , computer science , political science , database , library science
. The purpose of this paper is to address some of the main issues of contemporary jurisprudential methodology by considering the contribution of Jules Coleman to this subject. After a description of Coleman's methodological approach and a clarification of its philosophical background, the paper focuses on some related problems, such as the relation between linguistic meaning and conceptual content, the nature of legal concepts, the different aspects of the normativity of content, and the revisability of conceptual truths.