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Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life

Online ISBN:
9780191681844
Print ISBN:
9780198258315
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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Playing by the Rules: A Philosophical Examination of Rule-Based Decision-Making in Law and in Life

Frederick Schauer
Frederick Schauer

Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment

Harvard University
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Published online:
22 March 2012
Published in print:
11 February 1993
Online ISBN:
9780191681844
Print ISBN:
9780198258315
Publisher:
Oxford University Press

Abstract

This is a philosophical but non-technical analysis of the very idea of a rule. Although focused somewhat on the role of rules in the legal system, it is also relevant to the place of rules in morality, religion, etiquette, games, language, and family governance. In both explaining the idea of a rule and making the case for taking rules seriously, the book is a departure both in scope and in perspective from anything that now exists.

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