On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism

Woodbury-Smith, Kara

Abstract

In this discussion of Emad Atiq's article "There are No Easy Counterexamples to Legal Anti-Positivism" I pose three challenges to his construction of an Inclusive Anti-positivism. I firstly argue that, contra Atiq, the moral facts that both ground IAP and allow it to satisfy the extensional challenge are sometimes reducible to social facts. In Section II, I briefly discuss internal- and external-to-practice appraisals of legal norms. Finally, in Section III, I touch upon the divergent explanations of legal normativity IAP and positivism offer.

Citation

Woodbury-Smith, K. (2021). On Emad Atiq's Inclusive Anti-positivism. Journal of ethics & social philosophy, 20(2), 211-219. https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v20i2.1382

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 27, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Aug 13, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Deposit Date: Aug 25, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 25, 2021
• Journal: Journal of ethics & social philosophy
• Publisher: University of Southern California
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 211-219
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v20i2.1382