Fox, Chris and Feis, Guglielmo (2018) ‘Ought implies Can’ and the law. Inquiry, 61 (4). pp. 370-393. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1371873
Fox, Chris and Feis, Guglielmo (2018) ‘Ought implies Can’ and the law. Inquiry, 61 (4). pp. 370-393. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1371873
Fox, Chris and Feis, Guglielmo (2018) ‘Ought implies Can’ and the law. Inquiry, 61 (4). pp. 370-393. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2017.1371873
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the ‘ought implies can’ (OIC) thesis, focusing on explanations and interpretations of OIC, with a view to clarifying its uses and relevance to legal philosophy. We first review various issues concerning the semantics and pragmatics of OIC; then we consider how OIC may be incorporated in Hartian and Kelsenian theories of the law. Along the way we also propose a taxonomy of OIC-related claims.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ought implies can; OIC; meta-norms; iterated modalities; law; legal drafting; pragmatics; semantics; Kelsen; Hart; von Wright |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, School of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Nov 2017 11:26 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2022 13:43 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/20606 |
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