Autor: FiloLab

Ivar Rodríguez Hannikainen, investigador asociado en FiloLab, ha publicado el trabajo titulado "The folk concept of law: Law is intrinsically moral", coescrito con Brian Flanagan, en la revista Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Most theorists agree that our social order includes a distinctive legal dimension. A fundamental question is that of whether reference to specific legal phenomena always involves a commitment to a particular moral view. Whereas many philosophers advance the ‘positivist’ claim that any correspondence between morality and the law is just a function of political circumstance, natural law theorists insist that law is intrinsically moral. Each school claims the crucial advantage of consistency with our folk concept. Drawing on the notion of dual character concepts, we develop a set of hypotheses about the intuitive relation between a rule’s moral and legal…

José Luis Moreno Pestaña, investigador en FiloLab, participa, junto a otros 125 autores, en el "Dictionnaire internationale Bourdieu" publicado en las ediciones del CNRS bajo la dirección de Gisèle Sapiro. En este diccionario, consagrado a la obra de Pierre Bourdieu, Moreno Pestaña firma tres entradas: Passeron, misérabilisme y Espagne, esta última junto a Delia Guijarro Arribas. Más información sobre la obra aquí.

Ivar Rodríguez Hannikainen, investigador asociado en FiloLab, junto con Noel Struchiner y Guilherme de Almeida han publicado el trabajo titulado «Legal decision-making and the abstract/concrete paradox» en la revista Cognition. Higher courts sometimes assess the constitutionality of law by working through a concrete case, other times by reasoning about the underlying question in a more abstract way. Prior research has found that the degree of concreteness or abstraction with which an issue is formulated can influence people's prescriptive views: For instance, people often endorse punishment for concrete misdeeds that they would oppose if the circumstances were described abstractly. We sought to understand whether the so-called ‘abstract/concrete paradox’ also jeopardizes the consistency of judicial reasoning. In a series of experiments, both lay and professional judges sometimes reached opposite conclusions when reasoning about…