From his earliest work - on personal identity - to his last - on the value of truthfulness - Bernard Williams' ideas and arguments have been sometimes controversial, often influential, and always worth studying. Mark Jenkins provides a comprehensive account of Williams' many significant contributions to contemporary philosophy and his relation to the work of other philosophers,...(展开全部)

a ~This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.a (TM) These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly indicate what On Law and Reason is about. It is a theory about the nature of the law which emphasises the role of reason in the law and which refuses to limit th...(展开全部)

What are our duties or rights? How should we act? What are we responsible for? How do we determine the answers to these questions? Joseph Raz examines and explains the philosophical issues underlying these everyday quandaries. He explores the nature of normativity--namely, the fact that we believe and feel we should behave in certain ways, the reasoning behind certain beliefs a...(展开全部)

T. M. Scanlon is one of the world’s leading philosophers, widely known for his contractualist moral theory and his distinctive account of moral responsibility and blame. In these important essays, written between 2001 and 2021, Scanlon reflects on the lines of thinking that led him to these views, considers objections to them, and locates them in relation to the views of others...(展开全部)

This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal punishment that nevertheless preserves the central distinction between guilt an...(展开全部)

梅因早年在剑桥大学彭布鲁克学院学习法律。1847年至1854年间他在该校任钦定民法教授，期间在1850年取得律师资格。两年后他到伦敦四大律师学院任罗马法和法理学的第一高级讲师，其讲义于1861年以《古代法》之名出版，为他赢得了很大的声誉。这期间他还担任过一段时间的王室法官。1862年至1869年间他去印度担任总督府参事室参事，曾经参加指定英国的地方立法，协助编纂印度法典。这使他对印度的古代法进行了深入研究。回到英国后他担任牛津大学法理学主讲人，牛津大学三一学院院长和惠韦尔讲座国家法教授，他担任这一职位直到1888年去世。

梅因早年在剑桥大学彭布鲁克学院学习法律。1847年至1854年间他在该校任钦定民法教授，期间在1850年取得律师资格。两年后他到伦敦四大律师学院任罗马法和法理学的第一高级讲师，其讲义于1861年以《古代法》之名出版，为他赢得了很大的声誉。这期间他还担任过一段时间的王室法官。1862年至1869年间他去印度担任总督府参事室参事，曾经参加指定英国的地方立法，协助编纂印度法典。这使他对印度的古代法进行了深入研究。回到英国后他担任牛津大学法理学主讲人，牛津大学三一学院院长和惠韦尔讲座国家法教授，他担任这一职位直到1888年去世。