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" J.L. Austin and the law : "
Daniel Yeager.
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BL
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1048176
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b802546
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| Main Entry
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Yeager, Daniel Brian.
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J.L. Austin and the law : : exculpation and the explication of responsibility /\ Daniel Yeager.
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Lewisburg :: Bucknell University Press,, ©2006.
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215 pages ;; 24 cm
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0838756212
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: 9780838756218
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.
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| Contents
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Mens rea -- Inchoate criminality as partial excuse -- Is criminal law (especially) moral? -- The ghost in the machine.
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"Yeager's aim in this book is to confront the idea of responsibility by mapping the work of J.L. Austin onto the criminal law." "Yeager's position is that the criminal-law vocabulary, or at least its deployment, threatens to freeze up or impede assessments of responsibility. In other words, the prevailing view of criminal law, a view that he traces to skepticism, may be, at its worst, a real snag in any meaningful attempt to come to grips with who is answerable for what, and to what extent. Yeager's thesis is to show that if we were to adopt the criminal-law way of talking about things - a mode of expression that he characterizes as false - the very purpose of ordinary moral language would be undermined."--Jacket.
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Austin, J. L., (John Langshaw),1911-1960.
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Austin, J. L., (John Langshaw),1911-1960
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Austin, John L.
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Criminal law.
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Ordinary-language philosophy.
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Responsibility.
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Criminal law.
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Ordinary-language philosophy.
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Responsibility.
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Philosophie der Alltagssprache.
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Schuld.
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Strafrecht.
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345/.04
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B1618.A84Y42 2006
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John Langshaw Austin and the law
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