{"product_id":"reasons-respect-and-the-law-daniel-peixoto-murata-9781509968855","title":"Reasons, Respect, and the Law: Jurisprudence as Practical Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a book about law and its impact on our practical reasoning.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from Bernard Williams, the book argues that our practical engagements with the law are complex and often obscure. It begins with a novel view on practical reason that is called open-minded reasons internalism. This is a view that emphasises how certain considerations can bear on action for concrete agents, and in doing so it is an explanatory account of reasons and actions. The account is receptive to the considerations that makes much of people's lives: the motivations and dispositions they have, the notions of character and identity, and respect. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book claims that this account helps in making sense of much of the richness seen in real life in how concrete agents engage with the law. It provides the tools to explain when and why an agent identifies herself totally with the law, as Inspector Javert did in \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e, but it can also explain the attitude of respect that many law-abiding citizens have, and even the merely prudential considerations of OW Holmes' famous 'bad man'. What emerges from this book is a view on law and practical reason that takes seriously the phenomenology of action. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book will be of interest to anyone interested in philosophical accounts of how we engage our practical reasoning with complex social practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Peixoto Murata\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1509968857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781509968855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hart Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Daniel Peixoto Murata","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48997402312959,"sku":"9781509968855","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reasons-respect-and-the-law-daniel-peixoto-murata-9781509968855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}