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Believing, I suppose, that the best defense is an offense, Dennis Patterson replies to my observation about the current state of the discourse known as ǃÚanalytic jurisprudence’ by challenging me to provide an argument in favor of one alternative I suggested: social philosophy as informing theories about the concept of (and nature of) law. Unfortunately, […]

An earlier entry of mine in this blog ÇƒÏ meant to provoke a discussion rather than to “argueǃ? a point ÇƒÏ has resulted in some interesting responses. I wish particularly to address the opening remark in Dennis Patterson’s response who notes that:
Anyone familiar with, say, HLA Hart’s book *The Concept of Law* could hardly […]

Even jurisprudes (analytic legal philosophers), in addition to other legal theorists, are coming to the slow and painful realization that something has gone terribly wrong in legal philosophy. Anglo-American legal philosophy is littered with circular, repetitive and quite esoteric discussions. Things have gotten so bad that some recent articles have resorted to personal attacks. […]