Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law

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, and culpability, and are they consistent with the corresponding 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, A nces 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.>

Préface
Introduces the nascent field of experimental legal philosophy, bringing together theoretical and empirical approaches from across philosophy, law and psychology.

Auteur
Karolina Prochownik holds a PhD in philosophy and a PhD in law. She is Senior Researcher at the Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.Stefan Magen is Full Professor of Law at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

Contenu
List of Tables and Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements 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 Güver (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 Evidenc*e, 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 Jurisprudenc*e, Leonard Hoeft (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany) 10. *Experimental Longtermist Jurisprudence, Eric Martínez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Christoph Winter (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico/ Harvard University, USA) Index