Filosofía trascendental, Fenomenología y Derecho natural (Transcendental Philosophy, Phenomenology and Natural Law in English) is the title of a new publication from the Reason and Normativity series, organized by the Emotional Culture and Identity (CEMID) project of the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra. It is the fourteenth volume in the collection and is edited by Mariano Crespo, who is a CEMID research fellow.

This publication includes a series of papers mostly presented at a May 2015 symposium organized by ICS’s Natural Law and Practical Rationality research group. This group joined CEMID in 2016. This volume gathers contributions on diverse topics around the historical and systematic understanding of different natural law theories and practical rationality.

Some of the issues addressed include the connections between the material ethic of values ​​with phenomenological inspiration and the idea of ​​natural law, the distinction between the moral and legal spheres, critiques of the consideration that human rights are founded on natural law, the reasons why we have certain facts and duties as a consequence of social acts, and the meaning and significance of the term freedom when it is used in the framework of criminal law.

As the book’s editor notes, despite the thematic variety, the text addresses two common ideas: the need to promote dialogue between different disciplines such as philosophy and law on the question of the existence of elements prior to positive legislation and the conviction that these elements have their own intelligibility.

The authors who collaborated in the volume include Marta Albert (Rey Juan Carlos University), Mariano Crespo (University of Navarra), Cheikh Mbacke Gueye (University of Liechtenstein), Esteban Marín Ávila (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Pablo Sánchez-Ostiz (University de Navarra) and Roberto J. Walton (University of Buenos Aires).

The Reason and Normativity collection, edited by University of Navarra professors Ana Marta González and Alejandro G. Vigo, is published by OLMS, a prominent international publishing house that distributes in Germany, Switzerland, the United States and France.