Without Trimmings

The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer

Edited by Mark McBride and Visa AJ Kurki

17 original contributions from eminent scholars dedicated to Matthew Kramer, a world-renowned philosopher
Contributions cover a range of issues in legal, political, and moral philosophy
In response Kramer offers his own reflections on the contributions

Without Trimmings

The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer

Edited by Mark McBride and Visa AJ Kurki

Description

Professor Matthew Kramer is one of the most important legal philosophers of our time - even if the label 'legal philosopher' does not do justice to the breadth of his work. This collection of essays brings together esteemed philosophers, as well as junior scholars, to critically assess Kramer's philosophy. The contributions focus on Kramer's work on legal philosophy, metaethics, normative ethics, and political philosophy. The volume is divided into six parts, each focusing on different aspect of Kramer's work.

The first part, Rights and Right-holding, contains five essays addressing Kramer's work on rights and right-holding, including the Hohfeldian analysis and the interest theory of right-holding. The four essays in the second part, General Jurisprudence, focus on Kramer's work in general jurisprudence, from the compatibility of legal positivism with universal legal error, to his robust defense of inclusive legal positivism, concluding with reflections on his writings on the rule of law. The third part, General Matters of Ethics, contains two essays addressing Kramer's metaethical work on moral realism as a moral doctrine. The fourth and fifth parts, Freedom and Liberalism, have four essays falling within political philosophy, probing Kramer's work on negative freedom and political liberalism, respectively. The sixth part, Applied Ethics, contains two essays on Kramer's work on capital punishment and freedom of expression. The collection is rounded off by reflections on, and replies to, the contributions by Kramer himself.

Without Trimmings

The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer

Edited by Mark McBride and Visa AJ Kurki

I. RIGHTS AND RIGHT- HOLDING
1:Correlation and Constitutional Rights, Laura K. Donohue
2:Rights, Positivism, and the Vice of Self-Puffery: Why Kramer's Interest Theory is Nearly Right, Rowan Cruft
3:The Interest Theory of Rights at the Margins: Posthumous Rights, Joseph Bowen
4:Are Legal Positivism and the Interest Theory of Rights Compatible?, Visa A.J. Kurki
5:Tracking the Resilience of Hybridity, Mark McBride
II. GENERAL JURISPRUDENCE
6:Objectivity, Conventions, and the Possibility of Universal Error, Brian H. Bix
7:and Inclusive Legal Positivism: Dancing on the Head of a Pin?, Wilfrid J. Waluchow
8:Kramer's Theory of Legal Positivism: Merits and Demerits, Pierluigi Chiassoni
9:Law's Existence to Law's Rule: Reflections on Kramer's Understanding of the Rule of Law, Gerald J. Postema
III. GENERAL MAT TERS OF ETHICS
10:Metasemantics, Moral Realism, and Moral Doctrines, Christine Tiefensee
11:Distinguishing Value-Neutrality from Value-Independence: Toward a New Disentangling Strategy for Moral Epistemology, Lubomira Radoilska
12:Prevention, Coercion, and Two Concepts of Negative Liberty, Michael Garnett
V. LIBERALISM
14:Neutrality and Excellence, Mark R. Reiff
15:Does Edificatory Perfectionism Express a Quidnunc Mentality?, Collis Tahzib
VI. APPLIED ETHICS
16:Punishment and the Importance of Perspective, R.A. Duff
17:Kramer's Razor and the Freedom of Expression, Christopher Kutz
REPLIES
18:Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Replies to the Contributors, Matthew H. Kramer

Without Trimmings

The Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy of Matthew Kramer

Edited by Mark McBride and Visa AJ Kurki

Author Information

Edited by Mark McBride, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore, and Visa AJ Kurki, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Helsinki

Dr Mark McBride is a British and Irish legal scholar and philosopher, and currently an Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty of the National University of Singapore. His active research interests include legal philosophy and epistemology. His work has appeared in publications such as the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, Legal Theory, and Episteme. Recently, he has articulated the core of his tracking theory of rights in Analytic Philosophy - a theory which he is developing at length in a forthcoming book, The Tracking Theory of Rights.

Dr Visa AJ Kurki is Associate Professor of Jurisprudence at the Law Faculty of the University of Helsinki. His research interests include rights theory, legal personhood, and animal law. His monograph A Theory of Legal Personhood was published by Oxford University Press in 2019 and described as "an instant classic" in the Modern Law Review. His work has also appeared in journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory and the German Law Journal.

Contributors:

Laura K. Donohue
Rowan Cruft
Joseph Bowen
Visa AJ Kurki
Mark McBride
Brian H. Bix
Wil J. Waluchow
Pierluigi Chiassoni
Gerald J. Postema
Christine Tiefensee
Lubomira Radoilska
Michael Garnett
Ian Carter
Hillel Steiner
Mark R. Reiff
Collis Tahzib
Antony Duff
Chris Kutz
Matthew H. Kramer