Taking up a single question-"What does it mean to say a proposition of law is true?"-this book advances a major new account of truth in law. Drawing upon the later philosophy of Wittgenstein, as well as more recent postmodern theory of the relationship between language, meaning, and the world, Patterson examines leading contemporary jurisprudential approaches to this question a...(展开全部)

Patterson applies the modern debate between Realism and Anti-realism to the question of the nature of law. Starting from the question 'What is legal knowledge?' he examines the answers provided by the principal comtemporary theories of jurisprudence, concluding that they are all inextricably bound uo with the nature of justification. He concludes with a novel aaccount of legal ...(展开全部)

Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientifi...(展开全部)

Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientifi...(展开全部)

In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive re...(展开全部)

Crispin Wright offers an original perpsective on the place of "realism" in philosophical inquiry, proposing a new framework for discussing the claims of the realists and the anti-realists. This framework rejects the classical "deflationary" conception of truth, yet allows both disputants to respect the intuition that judgements, whose status they contest, are at least semantica...(展开全部)

Is truth objective or relative? What exists independently of our minds? This book is about these two questions. The essays in its pages variously defend and critique answers to each, grapple over the proper methodology for addressing them, and wonder whether either question is worth pursuing. In so doing, they carry on a long and esteemed tradition - for our two questions are a...(展开全部)

In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive re...(展开全部)

保罗·利科（Paul Ricoeur，1913—2005），法国著名哲学家、当代最重要的解释学家之一。曾任法国斯特拉斯堡大学（strasbourg）教授、巴黎大学（Sorbonne）教授、朗泰尔（Nanterres）大学教授，并为美国芝加哥大学、耶鲁大学、加拿大蒙特利尔大学等大学客座教授。2004年11月，被美国国会图书馆授予有人文领域的诺贝尔奖之称的“克鲁格奖”。 姜志辉，男，1955年生，复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院心理学系的副教授。著名的争议译者，因其从法语、英语翻译出的大量的政治、哲学、心理学学术著作中的译文错误而受到部分读者的批评。