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The Tapestry of Reason: An Inquiry into the Nature of Coherence and its Role in Legal Argument
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.
| Author(s) | By Amalia Amaya (University of Edinburgh and National Autonomous University of Mexico). |
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| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 648 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 26 Mar 2015 |
| Availability | Available |
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.
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 Bel
Amalia Amaya is Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophical Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
