Rethinking Legal Reasoning
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 7969
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4337/9781784712617
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar
- ISBN
- 9781784712600
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This approx. 130,000 word monograph examines legal reasoning from an epistemological viewpoint. The research draws on original (often complex) Roman, medieval, Renaissance and Post-Renaissance legal sources and contemporary legal texts; it equally employs continental social science and natural science epistemological theories to provide some of the intellectual framework. Comparisons are undertaken with respect to medical reasoning and to cinema studies in order to present some further critical insights via different and original perspectives. The fiction theory of Hans Vaihinger is proposed as an overall epistemological attitude for understanding what it is to have knowledge of law and legal reasoning.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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