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The Tapestry of Reason Amalia Amaya (University of Edinburgh and National Autonomous University of Mexico)

The Tapestry of Reason By Amalia Amaya (University of Edinburgh and National Autonomous University of Mexico)

Summary

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.

The Tapestry of Reason Summary

The Tapestry of Reason: An Inquiry into the Nature of Coherence and its Role in Legal Argument by Amalia Amaya (University of Edinburgh and National Autonomous University of Mexico)

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.

The Tapestry of Reason Reviews

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 fur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie *

About Amalia Amaya (University of Edinburgh and National Autonomous University of Mexico)

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

Table of Contents

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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NLS9781509915460
9781509915460
150991546X
The Tapestry of Reason: An Inquiry into the Nature of Coherence and its Role in Legal Argument by Amalia Amaya (University of Edinburgh and National Autonomous University of Mexico)
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017-06-29
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