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    A Defence of Robust Idealism in Political Philosophy.Stefano Bertea - 2023 - Moral Philosophy and Politics 10 (2):249-266.
    In this contribution, I defend a robust model of political idealism, making the case for such an approach to both the theory and practice of politics. On this view, not only in framing a political philosophy but also in putting forward policy proposals and institutional designs, we need not think about feasibility as an overriding, make-or-break criterion for evaluating the soundness of that theory or proposal, neither of which loses its point simply because it is deemed to be unlikely to (...)
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  2. Constitutivism and normativity: a qualified defence.Stefano Bertea - 2013 - Philosophical Explorations 16 (1):81-95.
    In this article, I defend a meta-normative account of constitutivism by specifically addressing what I take to be a fundamental criticism of the constitutivist stance, namely, the objection that constitutive standards have conceptual, not normative, force, and so that no practical normativity can be extracted from them as constitutive of agency. In reply to this objection, I argue that the conceptual role of the standards constitutive of agency? their applying to us by virtue of our being the kinds of creatures (...)
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    Where Objective Facts and Norms Meet (and What this Means for Law).Stefano Bertea - 2022 - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 36 (1):249-274.
    In this essay, I will engage with the controversy that has sprung up between the proponents of the sharp separation thesis and those of the entanglement thesis. What I will be defending is a variant of the entanglement thesis. By drawing on contemporary action theory and on epistemic conceptualism, I will argue that, while objective facts and practical norms are indeed distinct categories of thought, that distinction does not amount to a conceptual gap—a dichotomy or unbridgeable divide. Their relation, in (...)
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    The normative claim of law.Stefano Bertea - 2009 - Portland, Or.: Hart.
    Meaning and status -- Generality and moral quality -- Content-dependence and discursive character -- Why grounds are needed -- Grounding the normativity of practical reason -- Grounding the normative claim and force of law.
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    A Theory of Legal Obligation.Stefano Bertea - 2019 - New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
    The focus of this monograph lies in the construction of a theory of legal obligation, understanding it as a discrete notion with its own defining traits. In this work, Bertea specifically addresses the question: how should legal obligation be distinctively conceptualized? The conceptualization of legal obligation he defends in this work gradually emerges from a critical assessment of the theories of legal obligation that have been most influential in the contemporary legal-theoretical debate. Building on such critical analysis, Bertea's study purports (...)
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    Law and Obligation: Outlines of a Kantian Argument.Stefano Bertea - 2011 - In Stefano Bertea & George Pavlakos (eds.), New essays on the normativity of law. Portland, Or.: Hart. pp. 199--218.
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    Does Arguing from Coherence Make Sense?Stefano Bertea - 2005 - Argumentation 19 (4):433-446.
    In this paper the argument from coherence is submitted to a critical analysis. First, it is argued to be a complex form of coordinative argumentation, structured on various argumentative levels. Then, using the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation a distinction is brought out between two basic forms of the argument from coherence: in one use this argument occurs as a sequence of two symptomatic arguments; in the other use we have a main symptomatic argument supported by a subordinate pragmatic argument. Finally, (...)
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    Certainty, reasonableness and argumentation in law.Stefano Bertea - 2004 - Argumentation 18 (4):465-478.
    This paper defends a position that parts ways with the positivist view of legal certainty and reasonableness. I start out with a reconstruction of this view and move on to argue that an adequate analysis of certainty and reasonableness calls for an alternative approach, one based on the acknowledgement that argumentation is key to determining the contents, structure, and boundaries of a legal system. Here I claim that by endorsing a dialectical notion of rationality this alternative account espouses an ambitious (...)
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    New essays on the normativity of law.Stefano Bertea & George Pavlakos (eds.) - 2011 - Portland, Or.: Hart.
    An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty, and right. These require us to acknowledge the normative dimension of law. Normativity is, accordingly, to be regarded as a central feature of law lying at the heart of any comprehensive legal-theoretical project. The essays collected in this book are meant to further our understanding of the normativity of law. More specifically, the book stages (...)
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    What Is a Legal Obligation?Stefano Bertea - 2024 - In Deryck Beyleveld & Stefano Bertea (eds.), Theories of Legal Obligation. Springer Verlag. pp. 27-57.
    In this paper, I seek to establish which sort of entity a legal obligation is. I will first consider that in the literature several referents have been associated to legal obligation. Some of them are linguistic in nature, whilst others have a factual quality or an ideal quality. After criticising the reductions of legal obligation to a linguistic object and to a state of affair, qua fact of some kind, I pass to explore the claim that legal obligation is best (...)
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    A Critique of Inclusive-Positivism.Stefano Bertea - 2007 - Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 93 (1):67-81.
    In this paper, I present a critique of inclusive positivism. Inclusive positivism is an untenable position, I argue, because the connection between law and critical morality is conceptual and thus more than merely an accident or a possibility: at the foundation of law we find social facts, but we also and importantly find moral evaluations. This thesis is supported by an argument showing in essence that law cannot exist apart from justification and that justification is a morally coloured practice. For (...)
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    Is the autonomy of the will a paradoxical idea?Stefano Bertea - 2023 - Synthese 201 (4):1-21.
    This essay tackles head on the argument that sees an inherent paradox in the autonomy of the will as the ground for the authority of the fundamental practical norms. It points out that only on reductive understandings of the autonomy of the will can this idea be qualified as paradoxical, thereby yielding outcomes that either contradict their premises or present autonomy under a false guise. With that done, it will proceed to offer a conception of the autonomy of the will (...)
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    Editorial Introduction.Mario Ricca, Stefano Bertea & Paolo Heritier - 2023 - International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique 36 (1):1-15.
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    Law, Shared Activities, and Obligation.Stefano Bertea - 2014 - Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 27 (2):357-381.
    This paper offers a critical assessment of the way the influential “conception of law as a shared activity” explains the normative component of law in general and legal obligation in particular. I argue that the conception provides a bipartite account of legal obligation: we have full-blooded legal obligation, carrying genuine practical force, and legal obligation in a perspectival sense, the purpose of which is not to engage with us in practical reasoning, but simply to state what we ought to do (...)
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    A Foundation for the Conception of Law as Practical Reason.Stefano Bertea - 2015 - Law and Philosophy 34 (1):55-88.
    This essay discusses a foundation of the connection argued to exist between law and practical reason that has proved to be highly influential and debated in contemporary legal philosophy – Alexy’s. After reconstructing Alexy’s conception of practical reason as well as its foundation, I criticise the weak transcendental-pragmatic argument Alexy uses to ground the authority of practical reason. This argument, I argue, can only show why occasionally, as opposed to necessarily, we ought to follow the guidance of practical reason, and (...)
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    Coherentism and Foundationalism in the Practical Domain.Stefano Bertea - 2016 - Jurisprudence 7 (2):365-375.
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  17. Constitutivism about Practical Reasons and the Idea of Legal Norm.Stefano Bertea - 2025 - In Stefano Bertea & Jorge Silva Sampaio (eds.), Metaethical issues in contemporary legal philosophy: a constitutivist approach. New York, NY: Routledge.
     
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    Contemporary Perspectives on Legal Obligation.Stefano Bertea - 2020 - Routledge.
    Bringing together world-class scholars who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation, this book addresses key dimensions of the current debate: providing novel insights and perspectives, as well as critically discussing the leading theories of legal obligation. The notion of legal obligation is widely regarded as fundamental by both legal practitioners and legal theorists. For the language that explicitly refers to obligation is pervasive insofar as paradigmatic legal materials make reference to obligation either directly, by specifying what a (...)
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  19. Etica pratica per società multiculturali. Note su un recente volume.Stefano Bertea - 2006 - Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 2:305-314.
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    Metaethical issues in contemporary legal philosophy: a constitutivist approach.Stefano Bertea & Jorge Silva Sampaio (eds.) - 2025 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    This volume explores the importance of constitutivism for legal studies. Constitutivism is the view that the normative force, or authority, of practical reasons is grounded in principles, capacities, aims, or functions that are essential to, and thus constitutive of, agency. While the implications that the constitutivist approach has on the fundamental meta-ethical disputes and central ethical debates have been extensively explored, the literature on the relations between constitutivism and law remains scarce, unsystematic and sporadic. This collection brings together world-renowned practical (...)
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    May There be a Legal Obligation to Engage in Principled Disobedience?Stefano Bertea - 2023 - Jahrbuch für Recht Und Ethik 31 (1):75-92.
    Mit diesem Text möchte ich zu der Debatte über den Status und die Legitimität prinzipientreuen Ungehorsams in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft beitragen. Nach der Einführung dieses Begriffs argumentiere ich dafür, dass sich prinzipientreuer Ungehorsam nicht nur als moralische und politische Haltung, sondern auch als rechtliche Verpflichtung darstellen lässt. Im Ergebnis vertrete ich, dass wir nicht nur prinzipientreu gegen das Gesetz verstoßen können, ohne notwendigerweise unsere rechtlichen Verpflichtungen zu verletzen, sondern dass rechtliche Verpflichtungen prinzipientreuen Ungehorsam sogar vorschreiben können. Mit dieser Rahmung des (...)
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  22. Normativity, human constitution and legal theory.Stefano Bertea - 2011 - In Jerzy Stelmach & Bartosz Brożek (eds.), The normativity of law. Kraków: Copernicus Center Press.
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    Remarks on a legal positivist misuse of Wittgenstein's later philosophy.Stefano Bertea - 2003 - Law and Philosophy 22 (6):513-535.
  24. Social-practice legal positivism and the normativity thesis.Stefano Bertea - 2021 - In Torben Spaak (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
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    Why One’s Practical Reasons Are Not Just One’s Own Private Affair.Stefano Bertea - 2017 - Philosophical Inquiry 41 (1):63-85.
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    Introduction.Deryck Beyleveld & Stefano Bertea - 2024 - In Deryck Beyleveld & Stefano Bertea (eds.), Theories of Legal Obligation. Springer Verlag. pp. 1-3.
    In the introductory essay, the editors will provide an overview of the debates on legal obligation the contributions of this volume directly engage with.
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    Theories of Legal Obligation.Deryck Beyleveld & Stefano Bertea (eds.) - 2024 - Springer Verlag.
    This volume collects six original essays by internationally respected researchers who have devoted themselves to the study of legal obligation. It brings together works that innovatively address key dimensions of the current debates concerning legal obligation from different and, in some cases, even opposing theoretical perspectives. As a result, the collection offers a comprehensive discussion of legal obligation that promises to significantly advance our understanding of the obligatory dimension of law. What specifically connects the contributions gathered here is one common (...)
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    Freedom, Responsible Agency and Law. [REVIEW]Kristen Rundle, Andrés Rosler, Jonathan Crowe, Stefano Bertea, Noam Gur & N. E. Simmonds - 2014 - Jurisprudence 5 (1):75-160.
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