Metaethical Issues in Contemporary Legal Philosophy: A Constitutivist Approach

Stefano Bertea · Jorge Silva Sampaio

Dec 2024 · Taylor & Francis

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This volume explores the importance of constitutivism for legal studies. Constitutivism is the view that the normative force, or authority, of practical reasons is grounded in principles, capacities, aims, or functions that are essential to, and thus constitutive of, agency. While the implications that the constitutivist approach has on the fundamental metaethical disputes and central ethical debates have been extensively explored, the literature on the relations between constitutivism and law remains scarce, unsystematic, and sporadic. This collection brings together world-renowned practical philosophers and legal theorists to fill a noticeable gap in the literature. The authors systematically and innovatively address key dimensions of the relationships between constitutivism and the theoretical study of law, as well as programmatically offering novel insights into the conceptual connections between constitutivist claims, fundamental legal concepts and practices, legal issues, and, ultimately, the law as a distinctive concept. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of Legal Philosophy, Legal Theory, Jurisprudence, Moral Philosophy and Metaethics.

Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylor-francis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

About the author

Stefano Bertea is Associate Professor at the Law Department of the University of Messina. The output of Stefano’s research work has taken the form of monographs published by leading academic publishers and he serves as a journal referee for leading academic journals.

Jorge Silva Sampaio is Guest Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon, School of Law. He is also an Effective Integrated Researcher of Lisbon Public Law, a co-coordinator and a member of Lisbon Legal Theory (LLT), and an associate of the Institute of Legal-Political Sciences.

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