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2011
AbstractAn essay from 1986, this chapter provides a summary for American jurists, modified and supplemented in 1996 for a French dictionary of philosophy. It investigates the reasons, philosophical and historical, for labelling some ethical, political, and legal theories ‘natural law’.It shows that a primary concern of such theories is the critique ...
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AbstractAn essay from 1986, this chapter provides a summary for American jurists, modified and supplemented in 1996 for a French dictionary of philosophy. It investigates the reasons, philosophical and historical, for labelling some ethical, political, and legal theories ‘natural law’.It shows that a primary concern of such theories is the critique ...
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Grounding Human Rights in Natural Law
, 2015Of the published reviews of Natural Law and Natural Rights, one of the most, and most enduringly, influential was Ernest Fortin's review-article "The New Rights Theory and the Natural Law" (1982).
J. Finnis
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Natural Law in Court: A History of Legal Theory in Practice
, 2015The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of God s creation. Until very recently, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as part of their training, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets into ...
R. Helmholz
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Liberty and Law: The Idea of Permissive Natural Law, 1100–1800
, 2014Liberty and Law examines a previously underappreciated theme in legal history - the idea of permissive natural law. The idea is mentioned only peripherally, if at all, in modern histories of natural law.
B. Tierney
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Between Morality and Efficacy: Reclaiming the Natural Law Theory of Lon Fuller
, 2014This article clarifies the relationship between the work of Lon Fuller and the natural law tradition in jurisprudence through a critical engagement with Kristen Rundle's book, Forms Liberate: Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller (Hart, 2012).
J. Crowe
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Philosophy of Science, 1977
It is a traditional empiricist doctrine that natural laws are universal truths. In order to overcome the obvious difficulties with this equation most empiricists qualify it by proposing to equate laws with universal truths that play a certain role, or have a certain function, within the larger scientific enterprise.
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It is a traditional empiricist doctrine that natural laws are universal truths. In order to overcome the obvious difficulties with this equation most empiricists qualify it by proposing to equate laws with universal truths that play a certain role, or have a certain function, within the larger scientific enterprise.
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1977
This paper is concerned with the question of the truth conditions of nomological statements. My fundamental thesis is that it is possible to set out an acceptable, non Circular account of the truth conditions of laws and nomological statements if and only if relations among universals — that is, among properties and relations, construed realistically —
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This paper is concerned with the question of the truth conditions of nomological statements. My fundamental thesis is that it is possible to set out an acceptable, non Circular account of the truth conditions of laws and nomological statements if and only if relations among universals — that is, among properties and relations, construed realistically —
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A Natural Adaptive Control Law for Robot Manipulators
IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems, 2018Existing adaptive robot control laws typically require an engineering choice of a constant adaptation gain matrix, which often involves repeated and time-consuming trial and error.
Taeyoon Lee, Jaewoon Kwon, F. Park
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