Tag: Imagination and Legal Reasoning: History
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Imagination and legal reasoning, session 3
I’m chairing this (predominantly pedagogy) session so comments will be short. Useful paper by Paul Harris on developmental psychology. Causal thinking is often influenced by counterfactual thinking — explored by psychologists in the late eighties eg Wells & Gavinski 1989, particularly with regard to children’s development. He cited Harris et al 1996 (cited here). He…
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Imagination & legal reasoning, session 2
Firt up, Suzanne Keen. She’s a narratologist, written on empathy and the novel, amongst much else. She contrasted immersion with perspective-taking and role-taking, and defined various forms of empathy. Machiavellian empathy — evolved behaviour, eg psychopaths demonstrate it a lot; self-empathy, where you deal with threats by imagining what they will do to you; fantasy…
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Imagination and Legal Reasoning: History, Theory, Pedagogy
Maks Del Mar, Simon Stern and I had the idea, quite a while back now, to hold a series of workshops, internationally, on the subject of legal reasoning. But not only legal reasoning, but the concept as within the context of other disciplines, other bodies of knowledges and practices. The workshops and background information are…