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Book SynopsisIn Elucidating Law, Julie Dickson addresses questions concerning the methodology of legal philosophy and advocates that legal philosophers should espouse an 'Indirectly Evaluative Legal Philosophy'. This approach can facilitate legal philosophers' understanding of aspects of the nature of law, without regarding law as inherently morally valuable.
Trade ReviewElucidating Law has many virtues, but the most attractive is its inclusiveness. Dickson is an optimist about the prospects of legal philosophy. * Robert Mullins, Ethics *
Table of Contents1: Elucidating Law: Motifs and Motivations 2: Legal Philosophy and the Nature of Law: Some Initial Considerations 3: Legal Philosophy and the Nature of Law: Some Challenges Considered 4: The Questions of Legal Philosophy: Diversity, Development, and Distribution of Emphasis 5: Approaching Law: a Constraining Duality and an Attitude of Due Wariness 6: Self-Understandings and the Limits of Revisionism 7: Indirectly Evaluative Legal Philosophy: The Value of Staged Inquiry 8: Continuity and Complementarity in Legal Philosophy
