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The semantics of fact-finding legal statements and the ontology of legal facts

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K01217
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 05010:Legal theory and history-related
Research InstitutionHitotsubashi University (2021)
Kobe University (2018-2020)

Principal Investigator

ANDO Kaoru  一橋大学, 大学院法学研究科, 教授 (20431885)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywords法概念論 / メタ倫理学 / 法的判断 / 法的言明 / 事実認定 / 法実証主義 / フィクション説 / メタ規範理論 / 法的推論 / 法哲学 / 意味論 / 道徳的非実在論 / フィクション / 法意味論 / 法存在論 / フィクション論
Outline of Final Research Achievements

There are philosophical puzzles about fact-finding legal statements. Judges create legal facts p when they judge "p is the case" as a termination of employment is created when the boss states "You're fired." Judges of higher courts can overturn and rewrite the legal fact, so that they can, surprisingly, rewrite the fact of past. Courts of last resort determines legal facts even when their judgements are irrational. In criminal trial, judges often exclude illegally obtained evidence and create the correspondent fact, which is necessarilly epistemically irrational. How can these practice be justified? In this research, we critisized the common view that legal facts are created by judges. What matters is not whether judges' legal statements are true or not, nor whether they are necessarily true like the boss's "You're fired.", but whether they are legally justified even when they are epistemically irrational.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

法的な「べき」を巡る近年の哲学的議論はメタ倫理学を応用することによって取り扱われるようになってきている。しかし、それでは取り扱えないのが、裁判官の行う事実認定である。裁判官の事実認定は「法的事実」を作出するとしばしば理解されているが、この見解は終審裁判所の不可謬性などを含意するという難点を有し、法に基づく国家の実力行使の正当性という法の支配の基本的理念と困難な関係を有している。この研究では、我々の社会にとって根本的に重要な法の支配や国家の実力行使の正当性を支えるものは、(願わくは民主的に統制された)裁判官に与えられた「法的事実」を創造する権力なのではなく、法そのものの正当性であることを示した。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2022 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (1 results) Journal Article (4 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 3 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] 台湾国立嘉義大学(その他の国・地域)

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 死の害と死後の害2020

    • Author(s)
      安藤 馨
    • Journal Title

      論究ジュリスト

      Volume: 32 Pages: 133-143

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 分析的政治哲学の行方:井上彰『正義・平等・責任』を評して2019

    • Author(s)
      安藤 馨
    • Journal Title

      法と哲学

      Volume: 5 Pages: 169-200

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 道徳的非実在論2019

    • Author(s)
      安藤 馨
    • Journal Title

      蝶名林亮(編)『メタ倫理学の最前線』勁草書房

      Volume: (所収) Pages: 247-289

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] AIとその道徳的能力:AIによる統治の正当性条件を巡って2019

    • Author(s)
      安藤 馨
    • Journal Title

      稲葉振一郎ほか 編 『人工知能と人間・社会』 勁草書房

      Volume: (所収) Pages: 226-258

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 倫理的ヴィーガニズムとその理論的背景2022

    • Author(s)
      安藤 馨
    • Organizer
      宗教法学会
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Semantics for Moral Discourse: Why Contextualism Is Still Not Dead2018

    • Author(s)
      Kaoru Ando
    • Organizer
      Annual Conference of Taiwan Philosophical Association
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Semantics for Moral Discourse: Why Contextualism Is Still Not Dead2018

    • Author(s)
      Kaoru Ando
    • Organizer
      Philosophy Seminar of National Chung Cheng University
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Harm of Sexual Assault: some thoughts on McMahan and Singer's 'Who Is the Victim in the Anna Stubblefield Case?'2018

    • Author(s)
      Kaoru Ando
    • Organizer
      Hoover Chair Seminar (Universite catholique de Louvain)
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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