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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Joseph Raz was affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their academic work focused on various aspects of philosophy, law, and political science.

Raz's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers: "On Dancy's account of practical reasoning" (2020) published in Philosophical Explorations, "Filozofska istraživanja" (2021) published in Filozofska istraživanja, "Exclusionary Reasons" (2021) published in SSRN Electronic Journal, "Normativity and the Other" (2021) published in SSRN Electronic Journal, and "Are there commendatory reasons?" (2021) also published in SSRN Electronic Journal.

Their frequent coauthors included Martha C. Nussbaum (2 collaborations), Michal Sládeček, Intervencije Sažetak, John Rawls, and Jonathan Quong.

Joseph Raz published predominantly in the following venues: SSRN Electronic Journal, Philosophical Explorations, Filozofska istraživanja, Revista latinoamericana de filosofía política., and Macau Journal of Global Legal Studies.

The main subfields associated with their research included:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Philosophy
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Law

Joseph Raz's work covered a range of topics, including:

  • Free Will and Agency
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Comparative constitutional jurisprudence studies
  • Legal processes and jurisprudence
  • Comparative International Legal Studies

They were awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.

Best Publications

  • The Morality of Freedom

    Joseph Raz

  • The authority of lawEssays on law and morality

    Unknown

  • Practical Reason and Norms

    Joseph Raz

  • The Authority of Law

    Alan R. White;J. Raz

  • The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality

    Joseph Raz

  • Ethics in the Public DomainEssays in the Morality of Law and Politics

    Unknown

  • The Rule of Law and its Virtue

    Joseph Raz

  • Legal Principles and the Limits of Law

    Joseph Raz

  • From Normativity to Responsibility

    Joseph Raz

  • Ethics in the Public Domain

    Joseph Raz

  • Engaging Reason: On the Theory of Value and Action

    Joseph Raz

  • Disagreement in Politics

    Joseph Raz

  • Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics

    Joseph Raz

  • Between authority and interpretation

    Joseph Raz

  • Facing diversity: The case of epistemic abstinence

    Joseph Raz

  • Value, Respect, and Attachment

    Joseph Raz

  • On the nature of rights

    J. Raz

  • The Myth of Instrumental Rationality

    Joseph Raz

  • The concept of a legal system

    Joseph Raz

  • Authority, Law and Morality

    Joseph Raz

  • Between Authority and Interpretation: On the Theory of Law and Practical Reason

    Joseph Raz

  • Multiculturalism: a Liberal Perspective

    Joseph Raz

  • Authority and justification

    Joseph Raz

  • Voluntary Obligations and Normative Powers

    Neil MacCormick;Joseph Raz

  • Kelsen's Theory of the Basic Norm

    Joseph Raz

  • The Concept of a Legal System: An Introduction to the Theory of Legal System

    Joseph Raz

  • Human Rights Without Foundations

    Joseph Raz;Joseph Raz;Joseph Raz

  • Law, Morality and Society

    P. M. S. Hacker;J. Raz

  • Law, morality, and society : essays in honour of H.L.A. Hart

    H. L. A. Hart;P. M. S. Hacker;Joseph Raz

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. S. Hacker
Peter M. S. Hacker University of Oxford
Jeremy Waldron
Jeremy Waldron New York University
Neil MacCormick
Neil MacCormick University of Edinburgh
H. L. A. Hart
H. L. A. Hart University of Oxford

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