Playing By The Rules Paperback 1st Edition

Frederick Schaucer

Rules are a central component of such diverse enterprises as law, morality, language, games, religion, etiquette, and family governance, but there is often confusion about what a rule is, and what rules do. Offering a comprehensive philosophical analysis of these questions, this book challenges much of the existing legal, jurisprudential, and philosophical literature, by seeing a significant role for rules, an equally significant role for their stricter operation, and making the case for rules as devices for the allocation of power among decision-makers.

0198258313

9780198258315

English

Oxford University Press

22-Apr-1993

276

Frederick Schauer is a Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard University.

1st Edition

Schauer has written a serious work in the philosophy of law and language, which can most fully be evaluated by specialists in those fields ... Schauer takes great care to be as precise as he can in his formulations.'Mark V. Tushnet, Georgetown University, Michigan Law Review 'With Frederik Schauer's Playing by the Rules, we have a clear and interesting account of one type of social rules ... This excellent book shows that a work can be both compact and important.'Leslie Green, York University, Toronto, American Political Science Review, Vol. 88, No. 1, March 1994 `a clear and interesting account of one type of social rules ... This excellent book shows that a work can be both compact and important'American Political Science Review