Legal Reasoning, Particularism: In Defense of a Psychologistic Approach. In this paper I recommend a close examination of the reasons favouring a deep and potentially far reaching reorientation of legal theory, and of the theory of norms and norm-based reasoning and decision-making generally, namely, the adoption of a psychologistic approach (“psychodeontics”). I argue in favour of psychologism - not in the anstract, but - with reference to rwo particular topics: legal reasoning (specifically, the justification of judicial decisions) and the project of a of two-tier (principles v. rules) theory of law, informed by a particularistic conception of practical reasoning. I show that there are aspects of practical reasoning (according to the particulariistic outlook), relating to the rule-exception relationship, that quite naturally lend themselves to an understanding in psychological terms. In contemporary circumstances, I argue in the conclusion, psychologism is the major route to the naturalization of jurisprudence.

Bruno Celano (2017). Ragionamento giuridico. Particolarismo. In difesa di un approccio psicologistico. RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO, 4(2), 315-343 [10.4477/88282].

Ragionamento giuridico. Particolarismo. In difesa di un approccio psicologistico

Bruno Celano
2017-01-01

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Legal Reasoning, Particularism: In Defense of a Psychologistic Approach. In this paper I recommend a close examination of the reasons favouring a deep and potentially far reaching reorientation of legal theory, and of the theory of norms and norm-based reasoning and decision-making generally, namely, the adoption of a psychologistic approach (“psychodeontics”). I argue in favour of psychologism - not in the anstract, but - with reference to rwo particular topics: legal reasoning (specifically, the justification of judicial decisions) and the project of a of two-tier (principles v. rules) theory of law, informed by a particularistic conception of practical reasoning. I show that there are aspects of practical reasoning (according to the particulariistic outlook), relating to the rule-exception relationship, that quite naturally lend themselves to an understanding in psychological terms. In contemporary circumstances, I argue in the conclusion, psychologism is the major route to the naturalization of jurisprudence.
2017
Settore IUS/20 - Filosofia Del Diritto
Bruno Celano (2017). Ragionamento giuridico. Particolarismo. In difesa di un approccio psicologistico. RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA DEL DIRITTO, 4(2), 315-343 [10.4477/88282].
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