3,525 search results for “philosophy of law” in the Public website
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Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of law is concerned with the the foundations of law.
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Philosophy of Law, Governance, and Politics (MA)
This master programme introduces the student to the philosophical issues on the intersection of law, politics, and policy. This master’s programme is meant for students who wish to combine an MA in Law,Political Science, Public Administration, or an adjacent discipline with an MA in Philosophy Law,…
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Andreas Kinneging
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Alban Mik
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maarten Neuteboom
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hakan Külcü
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bastiaan Rijpkema
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Raisa Blommestijn
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Philosophy of Knowledge (MA)
The master's programme in Philosophy of Knowledge at Leiden University is your opportunity to investigate the connections between philosophy and science in historical perspective.
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Timo Slootweg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Imke Maessen
Faculty of Humanities
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Philosophy of Humanities (MA)
The master's programme in Philosophy of Humanities at Leiden University allows you to specialise in conceptual and methodological issues in the Humanities.
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Explanation and Teleology in Aristotle's Philosophy of Nature
This dissertation explores Aristotle’s use of teleology as a principle of explanation, especially as it is used in the natural treatises.
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Bart Labuschagne
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jonathan Price
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gerard Versluis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Arie-Jan Kwak
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Philosophy of knowledge: The universal, the global and the local
In what way is constructivist logic able to account for both the role of the judging agent in inference and the universal claims of logical validity?
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The philosophy of punishment
If you want to maintain a valid penal system, you have to continue to ask the big questions on punishment. Why do we punish people? What is permissible for the government and what is not? Philosopher of Law Jeroen ten Voorde examines these kinds of questions and keeps his academic colleagues and the…
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Philosophy (MA) (120EC)
The two-year MA Philosophy at Leiden University investigates the fundamental principles underpinning human knowledge while cultivating your capacity for reason and sound argumentation.
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Proclus on Nature. Philosophy of Nature and its Methods in Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus
This dissertation is a study of the view of the Neoplatonist Proclus (Athens, 411-485) on to what extent and how the changing and unreliable world of sense perception can itself be an object of scientific knowledge.
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Hendrik Kaptein
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Afshin
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gelijn Molier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Neoplatonism, the philosophy of the commentators
This project studies the theory and practice of moral education in the (Neo)Platonic tradition.
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Mirjam van Schaik
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Tom Herrenberg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Niek Strohmaier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law
Most people know what law is. But what it should be or where it comes from is what interests the researchers from the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Law. Key to their approach are topics that go right to the heart of philosophy of law. What is a state? What are the limitations of…
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Research
Research within the department of Philosophy of Law is mainly focused on the history of the philosophy of law.
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Paul Cliteur
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Education
The Philosophy of Law Department is responsible for various courses both in the Bachelors and the Masters.
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Contact
The department Philosophy of Law is located at the Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw.
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Admission and application
Find out how to apply for Philosophy of Law at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Faculty of Law Research
The research within eLaw is mainly (but not exclusively) connected to the Faculty of Law research program Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a Pluralist World. The central research question of this program is: What opportunities and threats flow from the existence of institutional and normative…
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Deliberation and Agonism: Rethinking conflict and its relation to law in political philosophy
The Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University is host to the NWO programme,
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Building Blocks for the Rule of Law
Legal education initiative of the Leiden University, the University of Groningen and Universitas Indonesia.
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Raisa Blommestijn: Removal of children’s books about Black Pete troubling
Libraries in the Netherlands are removing books that contain references to Black Pete. According to the director of the Public Library Association, a logical and fitting response in the spirit of the times.
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‘Too much empathy is bad for justice
It is good for a judge to have some empathy with victims and offenders. But too much empathy can be harmful to the practice of the law, as PhD candidate Claudia Bouteligier has found. Literature may offer a solution. PhD defence 18 September.
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Rule of Law and Development
On 18 May 2011, Dr. Ben Knapen, Minister for European Affairs and International Cooperation, delivered the annual Van Vollenhoven Lecture on “Rule of Law and Development”.
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Boethius and the Importance of Basic Logic and Mathematics for Philosophy
In this dissertation, Boethius’ mathematics and logic and their roles in philosophy are reassessed, and on the basis of these, the connections between mathematics and logic in Boethius and their applications to theological or philosophical topics are explored.
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Philosophy student Eline van Slijpe wins J.C. Baak Prize
Eline van Slijpe wrote her Master of Philosophy thesis on intergenerational justice: does the current generation have obligations towards future generations? With this thesis she won the biannual J.C. Baak Prize.
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Nature and History Towards a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Historiography of Science
Nature and History, Towards a Hermeneutic Philospohy of Historiography of Science
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EU Executive Discretion and the Limits of Law
The increase in the European Union's executive powers in the areas of economic and financial governance has thrown into sharp relief the challenges of EU law in constituting, framing, and constraining the decision-making processes and political choices that have hitherto supported European integration.…
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Centre for Theoretical Philosophy
The Leiden Centre for Theoretical Philosophy (LCTP) is a platform for analytic philosophy in a broad sense at Leiden University. Its members do research in philosophy of science, philosophy of logic and metaphysics, with a keen interest in the history of topics such as mind, knowledge, truth, and ti…
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Ethnicity, Orthodoxy, and Policy in Medieval China: The Political Philosophy of Wang Tong (584?-617)
This research project focuses on the thoughts of ethnicity and political orthodoxy in Medieval China by investigating Wang Tong’s works.
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Militant Democracy: Political Science, Law and Philosophy
How can party bans be justified? Which parties were banned in post-war Europe – and why? Do militant democracy instruments work? Is an international militant democracy concept in the making?