Ori J. Herstein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Law) has posted Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good, by Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco (Mind (Forthcoming)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Review of Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco's Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good.
And from the review:
In her rich, insightful and novel book Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco offers a fresh and innovative perspective, deploying insights from action theory and the philosophy of practical reasoning to shed new light on the puzzles of law’s normativity. Rodriguez- Blanco’s contention is that legal philosophy has been dominated by an impoverished conception of practical reasoning and intentional action. And, given that the law is first and foremost a practical institution regulating actions, this impoverishment has lead to impoverished accounts of the nature of legal normativity. Armed with what she takes to be a richer and better conception of how people reason when they act intentionally, Rodriguez-Blanco sets out to evaluate, amend and challenge the answers given to the puzzles of legal normativity by the key figures of 20th century legal philosophy, as well as to offer her own answers. In addition to legal philosophy, Rodriguez-Blanco also contributes to the literature on the doctrine of the guise of the good and action theory, as well as delves into meta-ethics and moral psychology. This innovative monograph should greatly interest anyone working in general legal philosophy.
And here is a link to the book: Law and Authority Under the Guise of the Good by Rodriguez-Blanco.
