The conceptual relationship between justice and coherence makes the examination of the latter a pressing need... Amaya features extensive and in depth critical analysis of the issue under discussion... Undoubtedly, legal theorists have much to learn from Amaya's monograph.

- Dr Kyriakos N Kotsoglou, Liverpool Hope University, ARSP: Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie

In recent years coherence theories of law and adjudication have been extremely influential in legal scholarship. These theories significantly advance the case for coherentism in law. Nonetheless, there remain a number of problems in the coherence theory in law. This ambitious new work makes the first concerted attempt to develop a coherence-based theory of legal reasoning, and in so doing addresses, or at least mitigates these problems. The book is organized in three parts. The first part provides a critical analysis of the main coherentist approaches to both normative and factual reasoning in law. The second part investigates the coherence theory in a number of fields that are relevant to law: coherence theories of epistemic justification, coherentist approaches to belief revision and theory-choice in science, coherence theories of practical and moral reasoning and coherence-based approaches to discourse interpretation. Taking this interdisciplinary analysis as a starting point, the third part develops a coherence-based model of legal reasoning. While this model builds upon the standard theory of legal reasoning, it also leads to rethinking some of the basic assumptions that characterize this theory, and suggests some lines along which it may be further developed. Thus, ultimately, the book not only improves upon the current state of coherence theory in law, but also contributes to the larger debate about how to articulate a theory of legal reasoning that results in better decision-making.
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Although coherence theories of law and adjudication have, recently, been extremely influential in legal scholarship and have significantly advanced the case for coherentism in law, a number of problems remain. This, the first concerted attempt to develop a coherence-based theory of legal reasoning, addresses, or at least mitigates these problems.
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PART I. LEGAL COHERENTISM
1. Normative Coherence, Justification and Interpretation
2. Coherence, Evidence and Proof
PART II. INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
3. Coherence, Knowledge and Justification
4. Explanatory Coherentism
5. Coherence and Belief Dynamics
6. Is Coherence Truth-Conducive?
7. Practical Coherence
8. Beyond Reflective Equilibrium
9. Discourse Coherence
PART III. COHERENCE AND REASON IN LAW
10. A Coherence Theory of Legal Reasoning

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This ambitious new work makes the first concerted attempt to develop a coherence-based theory of legal reasoning.

Original works on legal theory.
This series, published under the auspices of the European Academy of Legal Theory, encompasses original works on legal theory, including the winner of the European Award for Legal Theory. This is an award made biennially to the author of the best European doctoral thesis in the area of legal theory and philosophy of law.

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Product details

ISBN
9781509915460
Published
2017-06-29
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight
960 gr
Height
232 mm
Width
150 mm
Thickness
34 mm
Age
P, U, 06, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
648

Author

Biographical note

Amalia Amaya is Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.