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Reasons, Rules, Exceptions. Towards a Psychological Account
2018
In this paper we defend a psychological account of rule-based reasoning, specifically of the relationship between rules and exceptions. The topic of our inquiry are the relations between rules, the reasons underlying them, and exceptions. In analysing these relations, first, we outline an apparent paradox, the “paradox of rules”, and a related problem, the “problem of reconsideration”. Then, we propose a solution to, or better dissolution of, the paradox, grounded in an account of the psychological processes underlying rule-application and reconsideration. We claim, that is, that the problem of reconsideration should be answered by appealing to matters of sheer psychological fact. The upsho…
Marxismo, giustizia sociale e garanzie dello Stato di diritto
2020
In the last decades the interest of philosophers and political scientists in Marx’s thinking is growing to recover those aspects of his theory that are believed to be still valid: above all, the aspiration to social justice. In this perspective, it is important to reflect on the relationship between the Marxian conception of the State and the law, and the totali- tarian State that arose after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Marx’s thesis, rejecting the Rule of Law and human rights as functional to the domination of the capitalist class, legitimised an instrumental conception of law and the model of political centralisation, which was provided for in the Leninist programme and then imple…
Constitutive Rules: The Symbolization Account
2021
Our aim is to provide an account of constitutive rules in terms of (1) the acceptance of regulative norms, and (2) a cognitive process we call “symbolization” (in an altogether different sense from what J. R. Searle means by this word). We claim, first, that institutional facts à la Searle boil down to facts concerning the collective acceptance of regulative norms in a given community. This, however, does not exhaust what institutional facts are. There is a residue, symbolization. Symbolization, as we understand it, involves a transfer of cognitive models from one domain to another. We introduce this notion by exploring different sorts of games, taking our cue from games of pretend play. In…
Stato di diritto
2015
Pre-conventions. A fragment of the Background
2016
In this paper I argue that there exist conventions of a peculiar sort which are neither norms nor regularities of behaviour, partaking of both. I proceed as follows. After a brief analysis of the meaning of ‘convention’, I give some examples of the kind of phenomena I have in mind: bodily skills, know-how, taste and style, habitus (P. Bourdieu), “disciplines” (M. Foucault). Then I group some arguments supporting my claim: (i) considerations about the identity conditions of precedents (D. Lewis) and about the projectibility of predicates in inductive inference generally (N. Goodman); (ii) thoughts about rule-following (L. Wittgenstein); (iii) an examination of some of J. R. Searle’s ideas ab…
Preconvenciones: un fragmento del Trasfondo
2016
Abstract, In this paper I argue that there exist conventions of a peculiar sort, which are neither norms nor regularities of behaviour, partaking of both. I proceed as follows. After a sketchy analysis of the meaning of ‘convention’, I give some examples of the kind of phenomena I have in mind: bodily skills, know-how, taste and style, habitus (P. Bourdieu), “disciplines” (M. Foucault). Then I group some arguments supporting my claim: (i) considerations about the identity conditions of precedents (D. Lewis) and about the projectibility of predicates in inductive inference generally (N. Goodman); (ii) thoughts about rule-following (L. Wittgenstein); (iii) an examination of some of J. R. Sear…
Il ritorno della giustizia nel diritto
2018
Il saggio vuole mostrare come il tema della giustizia è diventato preponderante nel diritto, dopo essere stato escluso a causa del dominio kelseniano. L'antiformalismo, la costituzionalizzazione, il tema dell'argomentazione giuridica, il rule of law, il ritorno delle virtù dei giuristi in campo deontologico, la questione della povertà e i diritti umani non possono essere affrontati senza coinvolgere la giustizia.
Interpretazione del diritto internazionale e rule of law
2020
The article discusses two main theses. The first one is the presence and forms of the rule of law in the international legal scenario. This task is developed through the analysis of three possible versions: the extension of the domestic rule of law to the obligations coming from international law, the rule of international law, and the international rule of law. The second thesis is that the rule of law plays a role in the interpretation of law. This role depends on legal science, considered the crucial resource of an international law of international lawyers. The final point regards then the relationships between international rule of law and legal science, and, in particular, the answeri…
Come il diritto inventa le identità
2012
Does the identity recorded by documents certify what you are or affect your way of being? Do the different classes of subjects to which the rules grant rights or impose obligations exist before being utilized by law? Is the role conferred by the institutions a false mask that can be dismissed at the end of a working day or is it a stubborn demon that possesses the soul of the man and the citizen? These questions introduce the issue of this paper: the relationship between Law and identity, in particular the contribution of legal sphere to the construction or manipulation of collective identities such as gender, race, nationality or class. The author opts for a constructivist approach and des…
Avvocatura, deontologia e concetto di diritto ovvero: perché studiare la deontologia forense fa bene alla filosofia del diritto
2021
The contribution examines the different versions of eliminativism concerning the concept of law (pragmatism, realism and reductivism), and shows that the very practice of law needs to focus on its concept.