Do Not Ignore the Elephant. Exploring the Role of Intuition and
Experience in Judicial Decision-Making

D 2021

Do Not Ignore the Elephant. Exploring the Role of Intuition and Experience in Judicial Decision-Making

TVRDÍKOVÁ, Linda

Základní údaje

Originální název

Do Not Ignore the Elephant. Exploring the Role of Intuition and Experience in Judicial Decision-Making

Autoři

TVRDÍKOVÁ, Linda (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

1. vyd. Brno, Argumentation 2021 : international conference on alternative methods of argumentation in law, od s. 32-50, 19 s. 2021

Nakladatel

Masaryk University

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Stať ve sborníku

Obor

50501 Law

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

Open access sborníku

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14220/21:00123183

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

ISBN

978-80-210-9972-2

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9972-2021

Klíčová slova anglicky

Hunch; Intuition; Experience; Cognitive Science

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 14. 4. 2022 16:11, Mgr. Petra Georgala

Anotace

V originále

If we look at the literature about judicial decision-making and interpretation of law, we can find many texts which are dedicated to legal arguments, logic and legal reasoning – in those texts the rationality, analytical and logical thinking is glorified and an interpretation seems ‘just’ as a logical operation where judges subsume certain facts under general legal norm or norms, those norms are formulated linguistically, so it seems that the whole job of judges is to analyze texts. What we can see more rarely are discussions and texts exploring the role of intuitions, feelings and emotions and their role in judicial decision-making – at least in the Czech Republic. Those of our faculties are seen as the source of bias and distortion. Even if we look to the past, those themes are not so common among legal theorists and philosophers – especially in our tradition where we are still influenced by Hans Kelsen and František Weyr and their normative theory – but we can find exceptions and those are the American legal realists. In this paper, we will show that their observations and insights seem to be right. How can we know it? Because in last decades cognitive scientists have made big progress in the area of decision-making and it seems that we are not so rational as we thought us to be. They have explored that our thinking does not take place only through the deliberative system but, surprisingly, there is also another one system which influences our decisions. This system is automatic, fast, and intuitive – some call this system S1, Seymour Epstein an experiential system. This automatic system is more influential than our deliberative system because it is always heard – we can use Jonathan Haidt’s metaphor of an elephant and a rider. S1, the intuitive, experiential system, is an elephant and S2, the deliberative, analytical system is the rider – in legal theory, we have talked about the rider a lot but we do not explore the elephant sufficiently. This paper will try to uncover the nature of the elephant.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1524/2020, interní kód MU

Název: Role intuice v soudním rozhodování (Akronym: ROOFINT)

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Role intuice v soudním rozhodování

Citovat

TVRDÍKOVÁ, Linda. Do Not Ignore the Elephant. Exploring the Role of Intuition and Experience in Judicial Decision-Making. In Smejkalova, Terezie, Michał Araxzkiewicz, Ondřej Glogar, Linda Tvrdíková, Jana Stehlíková, Markéta Štěpáníková. Argumentation 2021 : international conference on alternative methods of argumentation in law. 1. vyd. Brno: Masaryk University, 2021, s. 32-50. ISBN 978-80-210-9972-2. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9972-2021.

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TVRDÍKOVÁ, Linda. Do Not Ignore the Elephant. Exploring the Role of Intuition and Experience in Judicial Decision-Making. In Smejkalova, Terezie, Michał Araxzkiewicz, Ondřej Glogar, Linda Tvrdíková, Jana Stehlíková, Markéta Štěpáníková. \textit{Argumentation 2021 : international conference on alternative methods of argumentation in law}. 1. vyd. Brno: Masaryk University, 2021, s.~32-50. ISBN~978-80-210-9972-2. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9972-2021.

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