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Law and Social Justice Edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke and David Shier  Table of Contents and Sample ChaptersThese essays by leading scholars illustrate the complexity and range of philosophical issues raised by consideration of law and social justice. The contributors to Law and Social Justice examine such broad foundational issues as instrumentalist versus Kantian conceptions of rights as well as such specific problems as the admissibility or inadmissibility of evidence of causation in toxic tort cases. They consider a variety of subjects, including the implications of deliberative democracy for privacy rights, equality as a principle of distributive justice, the paradox of "moral luck," the treatment of intellectual property in China and its roots in Chinese tradition, and the extent to which initial acquisition of goods yields full property rights. Two special sections at the end of the volume discuss the treatment of law and social justice issues in the work of two philosophers: "Wittgenstein and Legal Theory," on the influence of Wittgenstein's thought on legal philosophy, and a discussion of Jules L. Coleman's The Practice of Principle, which concludes with a contribution, "Facts, Fictions, and the Grounds of Law," by Coleman himself. About the Editors Joseph Keim Campbell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Washington State University. Michael O'Rourke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Idaho and an editor of Freedom and Determinism (MIT Press, 2004) and Law and Social Justice (MIT Press, 2005). David Shier is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University. See Other Titles In:
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