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"In recent years coherence theories of law and adjudication have been extremely influential in legal scholarship. These theories significantly advance the case for coherentism in law. Nonetheless, in the field of coherence theory in law a number of problems remain. This ambitious new work makes the first concerted attempt to develop a coherence-based theory of legal reasoning, and in so doing addresses, or at least mitigates these problems. The book is organised in three parts. The first part provides a critical analysis of the main coherentist approaches to both normative and factual reasoning in law. The second part investigates coherence theory in a number of fields that are relevant to law: coherence theories of epistemic justification, coherentist approaches to belief revision and theory-choice, coherence theories of practical and moral reasoning, and coherence-based approaches to discourse interpretation. Taking this interdisciplinary analysis as a starting point, the third part develops a coherence-based model of legal reasoning. While this model builds upon the standard theory of legal reasoning, it also leads to rethinking some of the basic assumptions that characterise this theory, and suggests some lines along which it may be further developed. Thus, ultimately, the book not only improves upon the current state of coherence theory in law, but also contributes to the larger debate about how to articulate a theory of legal reasoning that results in better decision-making."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Law --- Jurisprudence --- Legal reasoning --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Truth --- Coherence theory. --- Coherence theory of truth

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Metaphysics --- Theory of knowledge --- Truth --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Deflationary theory --- Philosophy --- Speculative Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion

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Although philosophers have been concerned with truth since at least the age of Plato, the last thirty years have witnessed a veritable explosion of the philosophical debate on this topic. The touchpaper which lit the fuse for this was undoubtedly the Deflationist Renaissance (half a century after the seminal work of F.P. Ramsey) due, in the Seventies, both to the Quinean disquotational interpretation of the Tarskian truth definitions and to the development of the prosentential theory of truth.

Truth --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Deflationary theory of truth --- Deflationism --- Deflationary theory. --- Philosophy.

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This book is an essay on how people make sense of each other and the world they live in. Making sense is the activity of fitting something puzzling into a coherent pattern of mental representations that include concepts, beliefs, goals, and actions. Paul Thagard proposes a general theory of coherence as the satisfaction of multiple interacting constraints, and discusses the theory's numerous psychological and philosophical applications. Much of human cognition can be understood in terms of coherence as constraint satisfaction, and many of the central problems of philosophy can be given coherence-based solutions. Thagard shows how coherence can help to unify psychology and philosophy, particularly when addressing questions of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. He also shows how coherence can integrate cognition and emotion.

Theory of knowledge --- Truth --- Speculative Philosophy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy & Religion --- Coherence theory --- Coherence theory. --- Coherence theory of truth --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General --- PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General --- Biology --- Philosophy.

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"Continues the author's discussion of the development of the Chinese philosophical concept Li, concluding in Song and Ming dynasty Neo-Confucianism"--Provided by publisher.

Truth --- Philosophy, Chinese. --- Li. --- Coherence theory of truth --- Chinese philosophy --- Confucian ethics --- Ethics --- Philosophy, Confucian --- Coherence theory. --- Li --- Philosophy, Chinese --- Coherence theory --- Truth - Coherence theory.