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Evaluating Sotomayor: An Exercise in Meaning

June 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, made a statement during a law lecture at UC Berkeley that has been the subject of considerable scrutiny from both the media and members of Congress.  Of particular interest, and the topic of our discussion here, is the extent to which evaluating this statement has [...]

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Tags: Philosophy of Language · Political and Legal Philosophy