Legal Judgment as a Philosophical Archetype

82 Preface LEGAL JUDGMENT AS INFORMATION INTEGRATION

Legal judgments and decisions require valuation and integration of stimulus information. Such information processing is a province of psychological science and many psychologists have taken up legal issues to seek social usefulness. Some issues in legal psychology obey the same mathematical laws of information integration established in other areas of human psychology. This is not surprising; ...

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Understanding How Grammatical Aspect Influences Legal Judgment

Recent evidence suggests that grammatical aspect can bias how individuals perceive criminal intentionality during discourse comprehension. Given that criminal intentionality is a common criterion for legal definitions (e.g., first-degree murder), the present study explored whether grammatical aspect may also impact legal judgments. In a series of four experiments participants were provided with...

Predicativism as a Philosophical Position1

Predicativity requirements of explicit presentability of objects and predicatively acceptable proof are distinguished from predicativist theses of a philosophical character. Familiar among these are expressions of skepticism about the objectivity of full power sets of infinite sets. Articulation of strong, limitative theses, however, turns out to be problematic: impredicative commitments creep ...