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(75)
Political Authority, Moral Powers and the Intrinsic Value of Obedience
(William A. Edmundson)
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
(2010)
Three concepts – authority, obedience and obligation – are central to understanding law and political institutions. The three are also involved in the legitimation of the state: an apology for the state has to make ...
Book Review,
The Duty to Obey the Law: For or Against?
(William A. Edmundson)
Law & Philosophy
(2009)
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Book Review,
Rights: A Critical Introduction
(William A. Edmundson)
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
(2007)
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The Virtue of Law-Abidance
(William A. Edmundson)
Philosophers Imprint
(2006)
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First Force
(William A. Edmundson)
Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy
(2005)
Comments on Richard Arneson's "Joel Feinberg and the Justification of Hard Paternalism"
(William A. Edmundson)
Legal Theory
(2005)
In Arneson's view Feinberg's arguments against Hard Paternalism fail. This Comment first distinguishes different formulations of Feinberg's antipaternalism in order to uncover his grounds for denying there is any reason to use criminal sanctions to ...
State of the Art: The Duty to Obey the Law
(William A. Edmundson)
Legal Theory
(2004)
This "state of the art" piece critically surveys the recent literature on political obligation, a/k/a the duty to obey the law. Authors discussed include Joseph Raz, John Simmons, Leslie Green, George Klosko, Christopher Wellman, Jeremy ...
Book Review,
Justification and Legitimacy: Essays on Rights and Obligations
(William A. Edmundson)
Law & Philosophy
(2003)
Locke and Load
(William A. Edmundson)
Law and Philosophy
(2003)
This is a critical review of John Simmons's book, Justification and Legitimacy: Essays on Rights and Obligations (Cambridge 2001). The thrust of the critique is to insist that Lockeans provide a basis for their selective ...
Afterword: Proportionality and the Difference Death Makes
(William A. Edmundson)
Criminal Justice Ethics
(2002)
Proponents and opponents of the death penalty both typically assume that punishment, in some form or other, is justified, somehow or other, and that just punishment must in some sense be proportionate to the crime. ...
Book Review,
Objectivity in Law and Morals
(William A. Edmundson)
Philosophical Inquiry
(2002)
Civility as Political Constraint
(William A. Edmundson)
Res Publica
(2002)
The everyday virtue of civility functions as a constraint upon informal social pressures. Can civility also be understood, as John Rawls proposed, as a distinctively political constraint? This article contrasts Rawls's project of constraining the ...
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Contextualist Answers to Skepticism, and What a Lawyer Cannot Know
(William A. Edmundson)
Florida State University Law Review
(2002)
Social Meaning, Compliance Conditions, and Laws Claim to Authority
(William A. Edmundson)
Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence
(2002)
Political authorities claim to be able to impose moral duties on citizens by the mere expedient of legislating. This claim is problematic - in fact, among theorists, it is widely denied that political authorities have ...
Book Review,
Equality, Responsibility, and the Law
(William A. Edmundson)
Ethics
(2001)
Introduction: Some Recent Work on Political Obligation
(William A. Edmundson)
APA Newsletter on Philosophy & Law
(1999)
John Rawls' the Idea of Public Reason
(William A. Edmundson)
APA Newsletter on Philosophy & Law
(1998)
Book Review,
Reasoning with Rules: An Essay on Legal Reasoning and Its Underlying Logic
(William A. Edmundson)
Comptes Rendus Philosophiques
(1998)
Legitimate Authority Without Political Obligation
(William A. Edmundson)
Law & Philosophy
(1998)
It is commonly supposed that citizens of a reasonably just state have a prima facie duty to obey its laws. In recent years, however, a number of influential political philosophers have concluded that there is ...
Book Review,
Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
(William A. Edmundson)
Ethics
(1997)
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The Antinomy of Coherence and Determinacy
(William A. Edmundson)
Iowa Law Review
(1996)
Coherence and determinacy are both apparent desiderata for bodies of law and legal systems. Unfortunately, in legal systems of any complexity, increasing the degree of one invariably brings about a lessening of the other. For ...
Is Law Coercive?
(William A. Edmundson)
Legal Theory
(1995)
That law is coercive is widely assumed. The assumption has important consequences. What we regard as coercive we view as at least prima facie illegitimate, and we hold it to an accounting. What is not ...
Book Review,
Modeling Legal Argument
(William A. Edmundson)
Philosophical Psychology
(1994)
Book Review,
Ronald Dworkin
(William A. Edmundson)
Ethics
(1994)
Love & Power: The Role of Religion & Morality in American Politics
(William A. Edmundson)
Ethics
(1993)
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