HĽADANIE PRAVDY V HISTÓRII PRÁVA (INAUGURAČNÁ PREDNÁŠKA)

• Authors: Gábriš Tomáš

Title variants

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Searching for truth in history of Law (Inauguration lecture)

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The contribution reflects an inaugural lecture of the author, held at the premises of the Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, on March 23, 2017. The topic of the lecture combines the interests of the author in law, history and philosophy, and deals with the problem of possibility of uncovering truth in law (trial) and in (legal) history. Comparing the two disciplines, and the role of a judge with that of a historian, while using insights from the philosophy of knowledge and truth, the author proposes applying the correspondence theory of truth where this is possible; in all the other instances, expert epistemic probability with no rational doubts should be the leading principle, while observing the respective imperatives of the respective science (law or history).

Keywords

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TRUTH; HISTORY; LAW; JUDGE; HISTORIAN

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 101
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 113 – 127

Contributors

author

Gábriš Tomáš

• Právnická fakulta UK, Bratislava, Slovak Republic