Legal Mind - A New Introduction to Legal Epistemology

How do lawyers think? Brożek presents a new perspective on legal thinking as an interplay between intuition, imagination and language.

List of contents

1. Intuition; 2. Imagination; 3. Language; 4. Structure; 5. Substance.

About the author

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.

Summary

Drawing from philosophy and the cognitive sciences, this book depicts a new picture of legal thinking as an interplay between intuition, imagination, and language. This fresh approach prompts key questions of rationality in law, how lawyers think, and the limits of legal interpretation that will interest scholars, students, and practitioners.

Product details

• Authors: Bartosz (Jagiellonian University Broz Ek, Broz&, Bartosz Broz&775;ek, Bartosz Broz?ek, Bartosz (Jagiellonian University Brozek, Bartosz Brożek
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781108493253
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49325-3
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Philosophie des Geistes, Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Organisationspsychologie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtstheorie und Rechtsphilosophie, Philosophy of Mind, LAW / Jurisprudence, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law