Scott Shapiro: Hukuk Felsefesinde Yumurta-Tavuk Problemi ve Bir Çözüm Yolu Olarak Planlama Teorisi

Abstract

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? The question that occupies important minds is likely to suggest an endless cycle at first glance. We need a chicken for a chicken egg and a chicken egg for a chicken. So, when two events appear to be both the cause and the effect of each other, it is a very difficult task to reveal which came first. Fortunately, our problem as jurists is not to decide whether the chicken or the egg comes first in this dilemma. Or exactly it is. If we accept norms that confer legal power as eggs, and those with power to create legal norms as chickens. Accordingly, the study deals with Scott Shapiro’s -who sees the main debates in legal philosophy as disagreements on different solutions to the chicken and egg problem- criticism of flawed solutions and then his planning theory of law, which he claims to eliminate the paradox flawlessly.