General Aspects : Theoretical Examinations and Practical Application, Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), New York, June 24-30, 1999
Many recent political and economic transformations pose difficult questions of legal and social theory. Yet, although these questions are now raised with new urgency, the basic questions are not new. They have long been central features of legal and social philosophy in its most general form. What principles explain or justify legal institutions or decisions, thereby transforming coercion to authority? Are there or could there be any such universal principles? Can any philosophical theory account for such principles? How, if at all, do philosophical theories of law and politics apply to particular issues? And finally, what, if any, do such practical applications tell us about general theories and principles? The essays in this volume represent the efforts of an international group of scholars to understand these general aspects of legal philosophy.
Proceedings of the 22nd IVR World Congress, Granada 2005, Volume V
The volume is divided into five sections. In the first chapter entitled aTheory of argumentationo, contributors debate the idea of a rational modification of beliefs as the basis of rational consensus, the G nther-Alexy debate, Opocher's conception of justice which is taken from a descriptive level to an argumentative one, truth in the field of rhetoric and judicial argumentation as well as sincerity as a necessary condition for effectiveness in legal argumentation. Further sections deal with oAnalysis and representation of argumentso, oContextualized judicial argumentso, oNorms and interpretationso and finally a section on oLogico with contributions on the stit theory and logic problems in the formalization and representation of legal knowledge in constructing an expert system. Contents I. Theory of Argumentation / Teoria de la argumentacion: Jose Manuel Cabra Apalategui: Discurso, racionalidad y persuasion Peng-Hsiang Wang: Coherence and Revision. Critical Remarks on G nther-Alexy Debate Maurizio Manzin: Justice, Argumentation and Truth in Legal Reasoning. In Memory of Enrico Opocher (1914-2004) Federico Puppo: The Problem of Truth in Judicial Argumentation C.E. Smith: Sincerity in Legal Argumentation Theory II. Analysis and Representation of Argumentation /Analisis y representacion de argumentos: Eveline T. Feteris: The Rational Reconstruction of Teleological-Evaluative Arguments Harm Kloosterhuis: Ad Absurdum Arguments in Legal Decisions G nther Kreuzbauer: Visualization of Legal Argumentation III. Contextualized Judicial Argumentation /Argumentacion judicial contextualizada: Marko Novak: Limiting Courts: Towards Greater Consistency of Adjudication in the Civil Law System Sonia Esperanza Rodriguez Boente: Los principios generales del Derecho en la argumentacion juridica Thomas da Rosa de Bustamante / Denis Franco Silva: Prospective Overruling: Why and How it Should be Applied (The example of the Brazilian Legal Systen) Stanislovas Tomas: Theory of Judicial Shamanism Derk Venema: Formalism and Non-formalism in Occupied Holland and Belgium 1940-1945 IV. Norms and Interpretation / Normas e interpretacion: Jaap Hage: Why Norms are not Imperatives Raymundo Gama Leyva: Some ideas about the nature of presumption rules Josep Aguilo-Regla: On presumptions and Legal Argumentation Marijan Pavcnik: Constitutional Interpretation V. Logic / Logica Mateusz Klinowski: Theory of Action on a Tree Jose Pedro Ubeda Rives: Problemas que el Derecho plantea a la logica.
