@inbook{03763b962be448d6964df08e3bc8ff75,
title = "Ten Theses on Coherence in Law",
abstract = "The aim of this chapter is to advance the following theses: (1) The concept of coherence in law may be best understood in terms of constraint satisfaction; (2) Coherence-based inference is an explanatory kind of inference; (3) There are three main operations whereby coherence may be built in the course of legal decision-making: subtraction, addition, and re-interpretation; (4) Epistemic responsibility is a pivotal component in a theory of legal coherence; (5) Coherentist standards of legal justification vary with context; (6) Coherence-based legal reasoning is a variety of reasoning about ends; (7) There are three main reasons why coherence is a value worth pursuing in law: epistemic reasons, practical reasons, and constitutive reasons; (8) The main motivation of legal coherentism is to provide a non-skeptical alternative to formalism; (9) The coherence theory of legal justification is psychologically plausible and this provides an argument in favor of this theory; (10) Legal coherentism is an agent-centered theory of justification.",
keywords = "Coherence Theory, Constraint Satisfaction, Epistemic Justification, Legal Reasoning, Virtue Epistemology",
author = "Amalia Amaya",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2013, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1007/978-94-007-6110-0_13",
language = "English",
series = "Law and Philosophy Library",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "243--267",
booktitle = "Law and Philosophy Library",
address = "United Kingdom",
}