Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law

Karolina Prochownik holds a PhD in philosophy and a PhD in law. She is Senior Researcher at the Center for Law, Behavior, and Cognition at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. Stefan Magen is Full Professor of Law at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

• List of Tables and FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Past and Future of the Experimental Philosophy of Law, Karolina Prochownik (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Part I. Topics in Experimental General Jurisprudence1. Experimental Approaches to General Jurisprudence, Raff Donelson (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)2. The Experimental Jurisprudence of the Concept of Rule: Implications for the Hart-Fuller Debate, Guilherme de Almeida (Insper, Brazil), Noel Struchiner (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada, Spain)Part II. Topics in Experimental Particular Jurisprudence3. Legislative Intent and Acting Intentionally, Kevin Tobia (Georgetown University Law Center, USA).4. Why Blame the Ostrich? Understanding Culpability for Willful Ignorance, Lara Kirfel (Stanford University, USA) and Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada, Spain)5. Culpability and Liability in the Law of Homicide: Do Lay Moral Intuitions Accord with Legal Distinctions?, Paulo Sousa (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Gary Lavery (Queen's University Belfast, UK)6. Causation and the Silly Norm Effect, Levin Güver (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Markus Kneer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)Part III. (New) Methods and Topics in Experimental Jurisprudence7. Ordinary Meaning and Consilience of Evidence, Justin Sytsma (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) 8. Examining Evaluativity in Legal Discourse: A Comparative Corpus-Linguistic Study of Thick Concepts, Pascale Willemsen (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Lucien Baumgartner (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Severin Frohofer (University of Zurich, Switzerland), and Kevin Reuter (University of Zurich, Switzerland)9. A Case for Behavioral Studies in Experimental Jurisprudence, Leonard Hoeft (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)10. Experimental Longtermist Jurisprudence, Eric Martínez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA), Christoph Winter (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico/ Harvard University, USA)Index

This collection provides an indispensable, first-of-its-kind introduction to the new and rapidly growing field of experimental legal philosophy. Full of cutting-edge research by some of the leading contributors to the field, the volume will be of interest to legal philosophers, social scientists, and lawyers alike.