The Legal Mind

A New Introduction to Legal Epistemology

AvBartosz Brożek

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

How does a lawyer think? Does legal intuition exist? Do lawyers need imagination? Why is legal language so abstract? It is no longer possible to answer these questions by applying philosophical analysis alone. Recent advances in the cognitive sciences have reshaped our conceptions of the human mental faculties and the tools we use to solve problems. A new picture of the functioning of the legal mind is emerging. In The Legal Mind, Bartosz Brożek uses philosophical arguments and insight from the cognitive sciences to depict legal thinking as a close cooperation between three cognitive mechanisms - intuition, imagination, and language - and addresses the question of how to efficiently use these mental tools. This novel and provocative approach provides a fresh perspective on legal thinking and gives rise to important questions pertaining to the limits of legal interpretation and rationality in the law.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-06-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:290 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108717526

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Mer om författaren

Bartosz Brożek is a full professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration and the director of the Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Brożek is the author of twenty book monographs, editor of twenty-four volumes, and author of more than 100 research papers. He received numerous scholarships and awards, including the Humboldt Fellowship.

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'Brożek takes us on an absorbing journey into the nature of reasoning, using the courtroom and its legal framework as a particularly revealing case study. The result is a highly original perspective on an old set of problems. The book is clear, fresh and insightful, as well as remarkably practical. It targets not just lawyers and logicians, but anyone who wonders how they figure things out.' Patricia Churchland, University of California, San Diego