Stefan Sciaraffa
 
 

My areas of research interest are political philosophy, philosophy of law, and metaethics.

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Select Publications

Edited Volumes

(2019) Normativity and the Problem of Representation (co-edited with M. Bedke), Routledge.

(2016) The Legacy of Ronald Dworkin (co-edited w. W. Waluchow), Oxford University Press.

(2013) Philosophical Foundations of the Nature of Law (co-edited w. W. Waluchow), Oxford University Press.                           

Articles and Chapters

(2025) (with Thomas Christiano), "Authority", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2025 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.).

(2023) Sciaraffa, Stefan, 'The Subject Matter of “Subject Matter” and General Jurisprudence', in Joshua Gert (ed.), Neopragmatism: Interventions in First-order Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

(2017) “Two Conceptions of Pluralist Jurisprudence,” In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (Nicole Roughan and Andrew Halpin, eds.), Cambridge University Press. 

(2016) “The Questionable Presupposition Underlying Hartian Accounts of Legal Facts,” Philosophy Compass 11(2): 81-90. 

(2015) “Constructed and Wild Conceptual Necessities in Contemporary Jurisprudence,” Jurisprudence, 6 (2): 391-406

(2012) “Explaining Theoretical Disagreement and Massive Decisional Agreement: The Justificatory View,” Problema 6: 165-189. 

(2011) “The Ineliminability of Hartian Social Rules,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 31(3): 603-23.       

(2011) “Identification, Meaning, and the Normativity of Social Roles,” European Journal of Philosophy 19(1): 107-28.

(2011) “Two Perspectives on the Requirements of Rules,” New Waves in Philosophy of Law, edited by Maksymillian del Mar, Palgrave MacMillan Press. 

(2009) “On Content-Independent Reasons,” Law and Philosophy 28: 233-260.                          

(1999) “Critical Legal Studies: A Marxist Rejoinder,” Legal Theory 5:201-219.


Book Reviews

(2025) “Two Jurisprudential Approaches: Descriptive Ethnography and Rational Reconstruction”, Review of Leslie Green’s Germ of Justiceˆ, Law and Philosophy.

(2014) R. A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, S. E. Marshall, Massimo Renzo, and Victor Tadros, eds., The Constitution of the Criminal Law. Ethics 125 (1):249-254.