Ethics of Institutional Beliefs

Edited by Adam Dyrda, Professor of Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Law and Administration and Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Maciej Juzaszek, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Bartosz Biskup, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and member of the Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy, Kraków, Poland and Cuizhu Wang, Faculty of Law and Administration, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland

‘Pragmatists always argued against the separation of reasons to believe and reasons to act. Hence, the debate on the ethics of belief and, in this book, its extension to the ethics of institutional beliefs and the status of social reality. The volume provides valuable insights into underexplored and fascinating issues.’

• ContentsIntroduction to Ethics of Institutional Beliefs xivBartosz Biskup, Adam Dyrda, Maciej Juzaszek, and Cuizhu WangPART I CONCEPTS1 Ethics of institutional belief: Ethics of what? 2Bartosz Biskup and Adam Dyrda2 Ethics of institutional beliefs: What kind of ethics? 23Maciej Juzaszek3 An operational definition of institutional beliefs 43Cuizhu Wang , Simon Graf and Konrad WernerPART II ARGUMENTS4 Self and society: Institutional facts, institutional beliefs, andthe construction of role identity 70Fernando Aguiar5 Reasoning in group and institutional contexts: A taxonomy 91Mariam Thalos6 Transcendental arguments in social ontology 112Stanisław Jędrczak7 Religious apologetics, (ir)responsibility, and the ethics ofbelief in the philosophical study of religion 134Sami Pihlström8 Group agents and their culpable ignorance 156Nathan BiebelPART III EXPERIMENTS9 What grounds the rule of recognition? Postulates forexperimental Hartian legal positivism 177Adam Dyrda and Piotr Bystranowski10 Institutional beliefs about law and social norms: Anexperimental study 201Cuizhu Wang, Bartosz Janik and Maciej Próchnicki11 A cross-cultural examination of fairness beliefs in human-AIinteraction 234Xin Han , Marten H. L. Kaas and Cuizhu Wang