Administrative / Constitutional Law Others Law

Ethics of Institutional Beliefs: From Theoretical to Empirical

Edited by Adam Dyrda · Maciej Juzaszek · Bartosz Biskup · Cuizhu Wang
Edward Elgar Publishing December 2025

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ISBN-13
9781035353842
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
December 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This incisive book reflects on the ethics of institutional belief, exploring the philosophy of social and legal institutions. Expert authors examine the deeds, beliefs, and collective attitudes of these institutions, in light of distinct ethical and epistemological approaches.

Contributors discuss historical and contemporary literature on the ethics of belief, epistemology, social ontology, and legal philosophy, shedding light on how these concepts interact with the self and society. Chapters analyze topics including reasoning in group contexts and transcendental arguments, and utilize empirical frameworks to explore the moral and practical concerns surrounding institutional reality, practices and modes of inquiry. Highlighting the complexity of these interactions, it suggests novel avenues for research while interrogating the fabric of group-designed societal structures.

Ethics of Institutional Beliefs is a fundamental resource for scholars and students of legal philosophy and theory, sociology and sociological theory, and social philosophy. This book is also of great interest to legal professionals and academics.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Ethics of Institutional Beliefs xiv
Bartosz Biskup, Adam Dyrda, Maciej Juzaszek, and Cuizhu Wang

PART I CONCEPTS
1.
Ethics of institutional belief: Ethics of what? 2
Bartosz Biskup and Adam Dyrda
2.
Ethics of institutional beliefs: What kind of ethics? 23
Maciej Juzaszek
3.
An operational definition of institutional beliefs 43
Cuizhu Wang , Simon Graf and Konrad Werner

PART II ARGUMENTS
4.
Self and society: Institutional facts, institutional beliefs, and the construction of role identity 70
Fernando Aguiar
5.
Reasoning in group and institutional contexts: A taxonomy 91
Mariam Thalos
6.
Transcendental arguments in social ontology 112
Stanisław Jędrczak
7.
Religious apologetics, (ir)responsibility, and the ethics of belief in the philosophical study of religion 134
Sami Pihlström
8.
Group agents and their culpable ignorance 156
Nathan Biebel

PART III EXPERIMENTS
9.
What grounds the rule of recognition? Postulates for experimental Hartian legal positivism 177
Adam Dyrda and Piotr Bystranowski
10.
Institutional beliefs about law and social norms: An experimental study 201
Cuizhu Wang, Bartosz Janik and Maciej Próchnicki
11.
A cross-cultural examination of fairness beliefs in human-AI interaction 234
Xin Han , Marten H. L. Kaas and Cuizhu Wang
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