Law's Humility

1. From Legalese to Ontologese
I. Dworkin's Vision of Jurisprudential Disagreement
II. The Site and Scope of Jurisprudential Disagreement
III. Legal Facts and Legal Propositions

2. Relating Legal Propositions to Legal Facts
I. Legal Truthmakers
II. From a Theory of Truth to a Theory of Truthmaking
III. Legal Propositionalism
IV. Legal Propositionalism without Legal Truthmakers

3. Relating Legal Facts to Legal Propositions
I. Two Hypotheses about Jurisprudential Perspectivalism
A. Pragmatic Perspectivalism
B. Semantic Perspectivalism
C. Perspectival Theoretical Disagreement
II. Non-perspectival Jurisprudential Statements
III. Are Constitutive Disputes Merely Verbal?
IV. Constitutive Disagreement and the Practical Point of View

4. Two Levels of Disagreement about the Metaphysics of Law
I. Legal Constitution and its Discontents
A. First-Order Disagreement over Legal Constitution
B. Second-Order Disagreement over Legal Constitution
II. Objectionable Jurisprudential Commitments
III. Disagreement over Legal Grounding

5. Resisting Ordinary Reasons Imperialism
I. Axes of Normative Relevance
II. Normative Roles
III. Rational Requirements, Asymmetry and Response-Constraint
IV. Thick Evaluation, Global Judgement and Constitutive Impact

6. The Metric Approach to Legal Normativity
I. The Limits of the Metric Approach
II. Legal Facts as Nexus Reasons
A. The Influential Role of Legal Facts
B. The Evaluative Role of Legal Facts
C. The Explanatory Role of Legal Facts

7. Two Levels of Disagreement about the Normativity of Law
I. First-Order Disagreement about the Grounds of Nexus Facts
II. Second-Order Disagreement about the Normativity of Legal Facts
A. How Can a Legal Interpretivist Disagree with a Nexus Theorist?
B. How Can a Plan Positivist Disagree with a Nexus Theorist?