Jurisprudence and Structural Realism

Anglophone legal theorists look to analytic philosophy for core presuppositions. For example, the epistemological theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Willard Quine shape the theories of Dennis Patterson and Brian Leiter, respectively. These epistemologies are anti-foundationalist since they reject the kind of certain truth-claims exemplified in Cartesian philosophy. And they are coherentist in that they seek to legitimate…