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Laws of nature and natural laws
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2006Abstract The relationship between conceptions of law and conceptions of nature is a complex one, and proceeds on what appear to be two distinct fronts. On the one hand, we frequently talk of nature as being lawlike or as obeying laws. On the other hand there are schools of philosophy that seek to justify ethics generally, or legal theory specifically,
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Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017
We speak to An Cliquet, a professor in the Department of European, Public and International Law at Ghent University, about working at the interface between conservation, biodiversity and law.
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We speak to An Cliquet, a professor in the Department of European, Public and International Law at Ghent University, about working at the interface between conservation, biodiversity and law.
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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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Natural Law and Laws of Nature
2001Abstract My instinct is to entitle this chapter “Natural Law (Sort Of).” This is because what I present in this chapter is a limited version of natural law. It certainly does not pretend to be a full rendering of the natural law tradition.
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Hospital Practice, 1989
Abstract Sitting In An Auditorium at the California Institute of Technology one Friday morning in January, my thoughts began to drift. We were assembled to celebrate the 60th birthday of Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, and the room was filled with people listening to talks on the future of research on the fundamental laws of nature ...
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Abstract Sitting In An Auditorium at the California Institute of Technology one Friday morning in January, my thoughts began to drift. We were assembled to celebrate the 60th birthday of Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, and the room was filled with people listening to talks on the future of research on the fundamental laws of nature ...
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Natural Law and the Nature of Law: Kelsen’s Paradox
2017Is it possible to articulate a genuine pure theory of law without it ceasing to be a positivist theory of law? The project of a pure theory of law can be held to presuppose a “nature of law” whose criteria lead to transcendence with respect to positive law, even though it is not its purpose.
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On the Nature of the Nature of Law
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011What is it for something to have a nature? And what is it for law to have a nature? Analysis of the concept of law has often been taken to be a search for the essential features of law, but it is not clear that the nature of a phenomenon or artifact is better explained by its essential features than by its common ones.
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The nature of the laws of nature
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2000We human beings live in the explanations of our existence as living beings. These explanations of our existence include what we call the ‘laws of nature’. Though we name them laws, we cannot claim that they have an existence independent of us. We human beings do not exist in nature, nature arises with us, and we ourselves arise with it. In this dynamic
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