Law, Science, Technology: Plenary lectures presented at the 25th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Frankfurt am Main, 2011 3515103287, 9783515103282

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Law, Science, Technology Plenary lectures presented at the 25th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Frankfurt am Main, 2011 Edited by Ulfrid Neumann / Klaus Günther / Lorenz Schulz

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Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie

Law, Science, Technology Edited by Ulfrid Neumann / Klaus Günther / Lorenz Schulz

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Law, Science, Technology Plenary lectures presented at the 25th World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Frankfurt am Main, 2011 Edited by Ulfrid Neumann / Klaus Günther / Lorenz Schulz

Franz Steiner Verlag

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Robert Alexy The Existence of Human Rights

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Samantha Besson The Egalitarian Dimension of Human Rights

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Hiroshi Kamemoto How Should Legal Philosophers Make Use of Economic Thinking Implications of R.H. Coase’s Economic Theory ....................................

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Adrian Künzler The Jurisprudence of Welfare Maximization. Embracing Complexity and Uncertainty in the Environmental, Health and Safety Context ...................

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Stanley L. Paulson The Very Idea of Legal Positivism

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Marijan Pavčnik Methodologische Klarheit oder gegenständliche Reinheit des Rechts? Anmerkungen zur Diskussion Kelsen – Pitamic .....................................

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Seana Valentine Shiffrin A Thinker Based Approach To Freedom Of Speech

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Tercio Sampaio Ferraz Junior Erosion of Subjective Rights by Reason of Technical Development (Patent, Copyright) ..........................................................................

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Carl Wellman The Internationalization of the IVR

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Olivier Jouanjan A Philological Turn in the Science of Law: History and Metaphysics in Savigny’s Work

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'!()!(# Das vorliegende Beiheft enthält nahezu vollständig die Texte der Plenarreferate des XXV. Weltkongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Rechts und Sozialphi losophie (IVR), der vom 15. bis 20. August 2011 zum Generalthema „Recht, Wis senschaft und Technik“ an der Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main veranstal tet wurde. In einem weiteren Beiheft werden die Beiträge des Special Workshops „Junge Rechtsphilosophie“ (Herausgeber: Carsten Bäcker und Sascha Ziemann) er scheinen. Wir möchten allen Referentinnen und Referenten des Kongresses noch einmal sehr herzlich für ihre Mitwirkung danken. Herrn Dr. Sascha Ziemann (Frankfurt am Main) gebührt Dank für seine engagierte Mitwirkung bei der Herstellung dieses Bandes. Frankfurt am Main, Oktober 2012

Ulfrid Neumann Klaus Günther Lorenz Schulz

*!($)!(+ This volume contains almost the entire plenary lectures held during the XXV. World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Phi losophy (IVR) which took place from 15 20 August 2011 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main on the general topic: “Law, Science and Technology”. A fur ther volume will contain contributions of the Special Workshop “Junge Rechtsphi losophie” (editors: Carsten Bäcker and Sascha Ziemann). We would once again like to thank all speakers of the congress very sincere for their contribution. A special thank is also due to Dr. Sascha Ziemann (Frankfurt am Main) for his committed participation in publishing this book. Frankfurt am Main, October 2012

Ulfrid Neumann Klaus Günther Lorenz Schulz

Robert Alexy

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Human rights are understood, worldwide, to be the basis of society. This broad agreement is found not only in philosophical circles but also in politics and law. Numerous human rights covenants as well as the incorporation of human rights into a great many constitutions can be read as an expression of the triumphant march of human rights in the period after the Second World War. In a word, their existence seems to be beyond question. Still, there are doubts about whether the belief in the existence of human rights amounts to anything more than a collective error or illusion. Fundamental criticism, directed to the assumption that human rights exist, is found not only in the dark re gions of political, ideological, and religious extremism but also in highly respectable philosophical writings. Alasdair MacIntyre’s claim that ‘there are no such rights, and belief in them is one with belief in witches and in unicorns’1 is an example. This – along with the fact, often corroborated in the history of ideas, that widespread con sensus is by no means a guarantee of truth – is reason enough to raise the question of the existence of human rights, in short, the existence question. 9: ,-$ ,-$!($#016; 6"+ http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.PDF