Epistemology and Ontology

Contents A. van Aaken: Synthesizing the Best of Two Worlds: A Combination of New Institutional Economics and Deliberative Theories D. Coskun: Law as symbolic form. Ernst Cassirer and the anthropocentric view of law L. De Sutter: How to Get Rid of Legal Theory? L. García Ruiz: On the Concept of Law and Its Place in the Legal-Philosophical Research N. Intzessiloglou: Socio-semiotic and socio-cybernetic approaches to legal regulation in an interdisciplinary framework L. Kaehler: The indeterminacy of legal indeterminacy M. Mahlmann: Kant’s Conception of Practical Reason and the Prospects of Mentalism M. Mahlmann / J. Mikhail: Cognitive Science, Ethics and Law t G. Noll: The Exclusionary Construction of Human Rights in International Law and Political Theory C. Peterson: The Concept of Legal Dogmatics: From Fiction to Fact F. Puppo: Law, authority and freedom in Sophocles’ Antigone M. Sandström: The Concept of Legal Dogmatics Revisited B. Schafer: Ontological commitment and the concept of “legal system” in comparative law and legal theory S. Schaumburg-Müller: Truth, Law, and Human Rights P. Sommaggio: Boethius’ definition of persona: a fundamental principle of modern legal thought X. Yu: Human Faculties and Human Societies – A Three Dimensional Cultural Epistemology W. Zaluski: The Concept of Kantian Rationality and Game Theory