TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomasz Pietrzykowski
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631853306
TI  - Naturalism and the Frontiers of Legal Science
DO  - 10.3726/b18343
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1117920
N2  - 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.
KW  - law, methodology, naturalism, philosophy, science, interpretation
LA  - English
ER  -