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(2014) Conservatism and pragmatism, Dordrecht, Springer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. shows us how pragmatism and conservatism intersect methodologically with respect to legal theory and practice. Holmes, in his reaction against formalism in legal theory, applied Peirce's pragmatism. The following chapter illustrates that Holmes's moral philosophy revealed the sentimentalism and skepticism of rationalism resonant in the work of Hume and Burke.
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Vannatta, S. (2014). Conservatism and pragmatism in Holmes's jurisprudence, in Conservatism and pragmatism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 126-144.
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