Tag: Theory

  • 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…

  • 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…