Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law

Author: Karolina ProchownikRuhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany; Stefan MagenRuhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781350260160

Published In: June 2023
Format: Hardback
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781350260191

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Only recently have philosophers and psychologists begun to consider empirical research methods to inform questions and debates in legal philosophy. With the field ripe for further experimental inquiry, this collection explores the most topical empirical developments and anticipates future research directions.

Bringing together legal scholars, psychologists and philosophers, chapters address questions such as: Do people share a stable set of intuitions about what the law is? What are common perceptions about causation, intentionality, culpability, and are they consistent with the corresponding technical legal concepts? To what extent can experimental research methods advance theoretical debates in legal philosophy about the nature of law? With fascinating implications for legal philosophy, ethics and moral psychology, Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law sets the agenda for the emerging field of experimental jurisprudence and will be of interest to both researchers and practitioners alike.

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Introduction: The Past and Future of the Experimental Philosophy of Law, Karolina Prochownik (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

Part I. Topics in Experimental General Jurisprudence

1. Experimental Approaches to General Jurisprudence, Raff Donelson (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

2. The Experimental Jurisprudence of the Concept of Rule: Implications for the Hart-Fuller Debate, Guilherme de Almeida (Insper, Brazil), Noel Struchiner (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada, Spain)

Part II. Topics in Experimental Particular Jurisprudence

3. Legislative Intent and Acting Intentionally, Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center, USA)

4. Why Blame the Ostrich? Understanding Culpability for Willful Ignorance, Lara Kirfel (Stanford University, USA) and Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada, Spain)

5. Culpability and Liability in the Law of Homicide: Do Lay Moral Intuitions Accord with Legal Distinctions?, Paulo Sousa (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Gary Lavery (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

6. Causation and the Silly Norm Effect, Levin Guver (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Markus Kneer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Part III. (New) Methods and Topics in Experimental Jurisprudence

7. Ordinary Meaning and Consilience of Evidence, Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

8. Examining Evaluativity in Legal Discourse: A Comparative Corpus-Linguistic Study of Thick Concepts, Pascale Willemsen (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Lucien Baumgartner (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Severin Frohofer (University of Zurich, Switzerland), and Kevin Reuter (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

9. A Case for Behavioral Studies in Experimental Jurisprudence, Leonard Hoeft (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)

10. Experimental Longtermist Jurisprudence, Eric Martinez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Christoph Winter (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Mexico/ Harvard University, USA) Index