This open access book introduces the first systematic approach to the debate on the unity or fragmentation of practical reasoning and its profound implications for legal philosophy.
Bringing together some of the foremost legal philosophers from the Hispanic-Latin world, the book presents a thoughtful dialogue with the Anglo-American literature, making it of interest to scholars from both cultural traditions. Although the topic is rarely discussed explicitly and systematically, it is pivotal to ongoing debates about legal normativity, the nature of law, legal authority, and the rationale behind legal decisions. This book fills this gap by providing a comprehensive perspective that illuminates the intersections between the philosophy of law and the philosophy of practical reasoning. It analyses law from the perspective of the agent and offers deep insights into critical issues in the field of law.
The volume is divided into four parts.
The 1st part addresses the question of the nature of reasons and the unity of practical and theoretical reasoning. The 2nd part deals with the question of whether practical reasoning works in a unified or fragmented way. The 3rd section examines the autonomy of legal normativity in relation to morality and other normative domains. In the 4th and concluding section, the authors analyse the implications of the thesis of the unity of practical reason for legal decision-making and the authority of law.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Edited by:
Diego Dei Vecchi (University of Girona Spain),
Sebastián Figueroa Rubio (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Spain),
Pablo Rapetti (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México,
Mexico),
María Cristina Redondo (University of Genoa,
Italy)
Imprint: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781509981571
ISBN 10: 1509981578
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 07 August 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Introduction, Diego Dei Vecchi (Universitat de Girona, Spain), Sebastián Figueroa (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), Pablo Rapetti (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) and María Cristina Redondo (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. Conicet, Argentina) Part One: Kinds of Reasons and the Dis(unity) of Reasoning 2. Reasons and Propositions. An Analysis of the Unity of Reasoning, Sebastián Agüero, San Juan. Universidad Austral de Chile, Chile) 3. Pragmatic Encroachment, Diego Dei Vecchi (Universitat de Girona, Spain) 4. Representing Practical Reasoning and Practical Reasoners, Maribel Narváez Mora (Universitat de Girona, Spain) Part Two: Practical Reason and the Unity vs. Fragmentation Problem 5. A Genealogy of the Dialectics between the Unity and the Fragmentation of Practical Reason, Pau Luque (Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM, Mexico) 6. The Dogma of the Unity of Practical Reason under the Requirements of Morality, María Cristina Redondo (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy. Conicet, Argentina) 7. Ways to Inhabit the Deliberative-Aspirational Point of View: Practical Reason and Objective Goods, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (University of Surrey, UK) Part Three: Legal Reasoning and the Perspective of the Participants 8. Acceptance, Detached Legal Statements, and Practical Reason, Pablo Rapetti (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) 9. We-intentions and the Legal Point of View, Sebastián Figueroa Rubio (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) 10. The Unity of Practical Reason and the Social Sources of Law Thesis, Natalia Scavuzzo (Universitat de Girona, Spain) Part Four: Legal Reasoning and the Institutional Nature of Law 11. The Narrativist Unity of Legal Reasoning and its Syllogistic Fragmentation, Andrej Kristan (Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy) 12. Unity of Practical Reasoning, Legal Positivism and the Justification of Legal Decisions, Paula Gaido (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Conicet, Argentina) 13. The Inferential Authority of Law, Damiano Canale (Università Bocconi, Italy) 14. On the Unity of Practical Reason and Reason-based Concept(s) of Authority, Julieta Rabanos (Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia)
Diego Dei Vecchi is Lecturer at the University of Girona, Spain. Sebastián Figueroa Rubio is Ramón y Cajal Researcher at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Pablo Rapetti is Associate Professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. María Cristina Redondo is Professor of Law at the University of Genoa, Italy.
