John Lawle

Biographic Data

ID4450480
NAMEJohn Lawle
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMELawle
SIGNATURELAWLE J
AFFILIATIONSIllinois State University, Normal, USA
ORCID0000-0003-0270-934X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Does Non‐Idealism Entail Particularism

    Open AccessJohn LawleARTICLEJournal of Social Philosophy2025

    In recent years, social metaphysicians have developed an interest in “non-ideal” approaches to social categories (Burman 2023). Non-ideal social theory aims to demystify our social world, to look beyond the ways in which prevailing institutions, relations, and practices present themselves, and to uncover the ways in which things really work. A non-idealist metaphysics of social categories thus casts a critical eye on common sense about categories…

  • Social norms and social practices

    Open AccessJohn LawleARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism2025References: 16

    Theories of social norms frequently define social norms in terms of individuals’ beliefs and preferences, and so afford individual beliefs and preferences conceptual priority over social norms. I argue that this treatment of social norms is unsustainable. Taking Bicchieri’s theory as an exemplar of this approach, I argue, first, that Bicchieri’s framework bears important structural similarities with the command theory of law; and second, that Har…

  • Against acceptance theories of social norms

    Open AccessJohn LawleARTICLEPolitics Philosophy & Economics2025References: 2

    According to some theories, a rule counts as a social norm within a community only if the members of the community generally accept the rule. This is a conceptual claim: proponents of these theories do not deny that a rule can structure people's interactions and relationships even though few people accept it; they simply deny that such a rule should count as a social norm. I argue that this approach draws arbitrary boundaries that cut through exp…

  • Against the Managerial State

    Open AccessJohn LawleARTICLELaw and Philosophy2020

  • The Trial of Sokrates

    John Lawle, John M Lawless et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1998Cited by: 7

  • Adoption in IV. Century Athens

    John Lawle, John M Lawless et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1996Cited by: 3

    The aim of the investigation is to throw light on the adoption institution. Much attention has been devoted to the contractual nature of the adoption which was carried out inter vivos as opposed to the unilateral nature of a testamentary adoption. In the present work it is argued that the main difference between the different types of adoption was one of procedure: adoption took place in public, in the adopter's phratry and deme, no matter whethe…

  • Mortals and Immortals

    John Lawle, John M Lawless et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1994