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Ronald Dworkin
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American legal philosopher (1931-2013)
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Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) was an American lawyer, philosopher, and jurist associated with the analytic philosophy movement. Born in Worcester, he held citizenship in the United States. His academic career included positions at the University of Oxford, New York University, and University College London. He was educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Magdalen College.
Dworkin’s fields of work included statute and political philosophy, and he was influenced by John Rawls. He authored works such as *Taking Rights Seriously*, *La decision judicial : el debate Hart-Dworkin*, *La comunidad liberal*, *Humanities in review*, and *Religión sin dios*. He received the Holberg International Memorial Prize, the Balzan Prize, a Rhodes Scholarship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He was a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Dworkin died of leukemia in London from natural causes.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 71
Top works
- Taking Rights Seriously
- La decision judicial : el debate Hart-Dworkin
- La comunidad liberal
- Humanities in review
- Religión sin dios
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 7
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Learning representations by back-propagating errors
· 1986 · cited 24,397x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,809x
- Lifetime Prevalence and Age-of-Onset Distributions of DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication
· 2005 · cited 15,590x
- An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest
· 2006 · cited 13,012x
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Quotes
- “Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?"”
- “'Nixon is no longer president, and his crimes were so grave that no one is likely now to worry very much any more about the details of his own legal philosophy. Nevertheless in what follows I shall use the name 'Nixon' to refer, not to Nixon, but to any politician holding the set of attitudes about the Supreme Court that he made explicit in his political campaigns. There was, fortunately, only one real Nixon, but there are, in the special sense in which I use the name, many Nixons.'”
- “She ends her letter, characteristically, by picturing me and her other critics as indifferent to the suffering of women. But many feminists, including several who wrote or spoke to me about my review, regret her single-minded concentration on lurid sex. They think that though it has predictably attracted much publicity, it tends to stereotype women as victims, and takes attention from still urgent questions of economic, political, and professional equality.”
- “Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She should stop calling names long enough to ask whether personal sensationalism, hyperbole, and bad arguments are really what the cause of sexual equality now needs.”
- “If we are to be morally and ethically responsible, there can be no turning back once we find, as we have found, that some of the most basic presuppositions of these values are mistaken. Playing God is indeed playing with fire. But that is what we mortals have done since Prometheus, the patron saint of dangerous discoveries. We play with fire and take the consequences, because the alternative is cowardice in the face of the unknown.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Ronald Myles Dworkin , ( 1931-12-11 ) December 11, 1931, Worcester, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- February 14, 2013 (2013-02-14) (aged 81), London , England
- Awards
- Henry J. Friendly Medal (2005), Holberg International Memorial Prize (2007), Balzan Prize (2012)
- Education
- Harvard University ( AB , JD ) Magdalen College, Oxford ( BA )
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic , Legal interpretivism
- Institutions
- Yale University University of Oxford University College London New York University
- Doctoral students
- Jeremy Waldron
- Main interests
- Jurisprudence political philosophy
- Notable ideas
- Law as integrity fit and justification in law right answer thesis legal interpretivism rights as trumps
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Encyclopedic overview
Ronald Myles Dworkin (/ˈdwɔːrkɪn/; December 11, 1931 – February 14, 2013) was an American legal philosopher, jurist, and scholar of United States constitutional law. At the time of his death, he was Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law and Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London. Dworkin had taught previously at Yale Law School and the University of Oxford, where he was the Professor of Jurisprudence, successor to philosopher H. L. A. Hart.
An influential contributor to both philosophy of law and political philosophy, Dworkin received the 2007 Holberg International Memorial Prize in the Humanities for "his pioneering scholarly work" of "worldwide impact". According to a survey in The Journal of Legal Studies, Dworkin was the second most-cited American legal scholar of the twentieth century. After his death, Harvard legal scholar Cass Sunstein said Dworkin was "one of the most important legal philosophers of the last 100 years. He may well head the list."
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