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Deferentialism: Soames on legal interpretation
Philosophical Studies 179 (6):2097-2107 (2022)
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This essay explores themes raised by Scott Soames in Chapter Twelve of The World Philosophy Made. Soames’s key contribution is the articulation of a general theory of legal interpretation and more specific theory, Constitutional Deferentialism, that is a form of public meaning originalism. His development of the connections between the philosophy of language and legal interpretation have been especially important and influential.Author's Profile
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The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age.Scott Soames - 2019 - Oxford: Princeton University Press.
15. Deferentialism: A Post-Originalist Theory of Legal Interpretation.Scott Soames - 2014 - In Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 320-342.
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