Naturalism and the Frontiers of Legal Science

ISBN-13: 9783631844984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 214 str.

Krystyna Warchal; Tomasz Pietrzykowski

Opis

The essay discusses one of the challenges to the methodology of the law - a new wave of naturalistic approaches. The book aims to outline how these new developments affect studying and explaining the law. It distinguishes two fundamentally different models of the scientific inquiry of the law and discusses the nature of its scientific status.

Spis treści

Science and its methodological foundations - The Problems of legal methodology - Legal Science and the Science of Law - Naturalism and legal sciences - Naturalism and the Philosophy of Law

O autorze

Tomasz Pietrzykowski is professor of legal theory and philosophy of law at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He is the author of numerous books and articles on various aspects of personhood, animal rights, and others. He is a practicing lawyer and the former head of Silesian governmental administration.