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The key question of metaphysics is: What does reality consist of? This work sets out Dummett's views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. It puts forward his controversial view of reality as indeterminate: there may be no fact of the matter about whether an object does or does not have a given property.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Philosophy of language --- Metaphysics --- Truth --- Conviction --- Logic --- Reality. --- Metaphysics. --- Logique --- Réalité --- Métaphysique --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism

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Neil Duxbury examines how precedents constrain legal decision-makers and how legal decision-makers relax and avoid those constraints. There is no single principle or theory which explains the authority of precedent but rather a number of arguments which raise rebuttable presumptions in favour of precedent-following. This book examines the force and the limitations of these arguments and shows that although the principal requirement of the doctrine of precedent is that courts respect earlier judicial decisions on materially identical facts, the doctrine also requires courts to depart from such decisions when following them would perpetuate legal error or injustice. Not only do judicial precedents not 'bind' judges in the classical-positivist sense, but, were they to do so, they would be ill suited to common-law decision-making. Combining historical inquiry and philosophical analysis, this book will assist anyone seeking to understand how precedent operates as a common-law doctrine.

Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Stare decision --- Law --- Interpretation and construction --- Judicial process --- Judicial process. --- Stare decisis --- Stare decisis. --- General and Others --- Law - Interpretation and construction --- Decision making, Judicial --- Judicial behavior --- Judicial decision making --- Judges --- Procedure (Law) --- Precedents (Law) --- Judgments --- Legal certainty --- Res judicata --- Psychological aspects --- Droit --- Common law --- Précédents (droit) --- Case law --- Sources

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This book introduces Hegel's best-known and most influential work, Phenomenology of Spirit, by interpreting it as a unified argument for a single philosophical claim: that human beings achieve their freedom through retrospective self-understanding. In clear, non-technical prose, Larry Krasnoff sets this claim in the context of the history of modern philosophy and shows how it is developed in the major sections of Hegel's text. The result is an accessible and engaging guide to one of the most complex and important works of nineteenth-century philosophy, which will be of interest to all students and teachers working in this area.

Consciousness --- Spirit --- Truth --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Pneuma --- Pneumatology (Philosophy) --- Pneumatology (Theology) --- Holy Spirit --- Soul --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Psychology --- Self --- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, --- Theory of knowledge --- Hegel, Georg W.F. --- Spirit. --- Consciousness. --- Truth. --- Arts and Humanities