Campbell University School of Law Scholarly Repository @ Campbell University School of Law Scholarly Works Faculty Scholarship 2017 Jurisprudence and Structural Realism Kevin Lee Campbell University School of Law,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.campbell.edu/fac_sw Part of the Jurisprudence Commons Recommended Citation Kevin Lee, Jurisprudence and Structural Realism, 5 Legal Issues J 63 (2017). Available at: https://scholarship.law.campbell.edu/fac_sw/141 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at Scholarly Repository @ Campbell University School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarly Works by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Repository @ Campbell University School of Law. Jurisprudence and Structural Realism Kevin Lee^ Some Anglophone legal theorists look to analytic philosophy for core presuppositions. For example, the epistemological theories of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Willard Quine shape the theories of Dennis Patterson and Brian Leiter, respec tively. These epistemologies are anti-foundational since they reject the kind of certain grounding that is exemplified in Cartesian philosophy. And, they are coherentist in that they seek to legitimate truth-claims by reference to entire linguis tic systems. While these theories are insightful, the current context of information and communication technologies (ICT) has created new informational concepts and issues. As a result, the analytic epistemologies are increasingly chal lenged by alternative perspectives. One such alternative is Structural Realism (SR), which is influential among the nat ural sciences, and especially physics. "Informational Struc tural Realism," (ISR) is a variant of SR that was introduced by Luciano Floridi.