A Priori Method in the Social Sciences

Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (Ed.) is a Full Professor of Law at Université Côte d’Azur CNRS GREDEG, Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Since the beginning of his career, he has developed the following research themes: international and European intellectual property law, the Europeanization of law, interactions between international and European law, methods of application of law in a global context, and an epistemological approach to circulation phenomena. His new research theme focuses on the antecedent approach to law.

• Part I: Law, Philosophy.- 1. Towards a New Antecedent Legal Method.- 2. The Cultural Dimension of Law.- 3. Is Legal Knowledge a Knowledge of Object?- 4. Antecedent and Ontology: in Search of the Smallest Possible A Priori.- 5. The Private/Public Divide among the Principles of Worldbuilding: Insights from Godelier, Fortes, and Arendt.- 6. The A priori: a Structure of an Ascendant Imaginary.- 7. Are Numbers A Priori Like any Other?- Part II: Economics, Management.- 8. Antecedents in Labor Economics.- 9. Blockchain: Antecedents and Future Challenges.- 10. A Priori to Investigate Innovation in Management Science.- Part III: Anthropology, Sociology.- 11. Not Having an A Priori has Become the Anthropological A Priori: Multiple Forms of Knowledge are Produced in Ethnographic Experiments.- 12. The Investigation as an Antecedent in Sociology and other A Priori