Dear all, At the next meeting of the SMG we will have Prof. Matthew Kramer (Cambridge) presenting a talk entitled 'On the Mind-Independence of Legal Norms' (abstract below). As usual it will be on Wednesday (the 22nd) from 4.30 to 6pm in the Philosophy Faculty Board Room. The talk should last about 45 minutes followed by questions and discussion. All graduate students are welcome.
A full list of speakers for Lent and Easter term is available here: https://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG Abstract: One shortcoming of H.L.A. Hart's discussion of legal reasoning and interpretation in his famous book "The Concept of Law" is his failure to distinguish between disagreements over legal norms (among legal-governmental officials) and the indeterminacy of legal norms. Some subsequent legal philosophers, including Ronald Dworkin, have maintained that Hart ran together that epistemic matter and that ontological matter because his theory lacks the resources to differentiate between them. My talk will show that a Hartian model of law can readily distinguish between the aforementioned matters (i.e., between indemonstrability and indeterminacy) by differentiating between ways in which entities are mind-independent. I hope to see you there! Nathan Hawkins PhD student in Philosophy Cambridge University _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
