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Naturalism and the Frontiers of Legal Science

Tomasz Pietrzykowski author Krystyna Warchał translator Piotr W Juchacz editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:27th May '21

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The essay addresses one of the main challenges to the contemporary methodology of the law, namely a new wave of naturalistic approaches that follow the rapid progress in the studies of the mind as a basis for psychological, behavioral, and cultural phenomena. The book aims to address the extent to which new developments of a naturalistic worldview affect the methodological foundations of studying and explaining the law, and distinguishes two fundamentally different models of scientific inquiry. Interpreting legal texts has to remain an anti-naturalistic, hermeneutic enterprise, conceiving law as a combination of causally related facts. As such, its scientific status depends mostly on its ability to become a part of an interdisciplinary web of naturalistic explanations of reality.

ISBN: 9783631844984

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 349g

214 pages

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