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Evidence matters : science, proof, and truth in the law /
"Is truth in the law just plain truth - or something sui generis? Is a trial a search for truth? Do adversarial procedures and exclusionary rules of evidence enable, or impede, the accurate determination of factual issues? Can degrees of proof be identified with mathematical probabilities? What...
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| Formato: | Printed Book |
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UK,
CUP,
2014.
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| Colección: | Law in context
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Epistemology and the law of evidence: problems and projects
- 2. Epistemology legalized: or, truth, justice, and the American way
- 3. Legal probabilism: an epistemological dissent
- 4. Irreconcilable differences? The troubled marriage of science and law
- 5. Trial and error: two confusions in Daubert
- 6. Federal philosophy of science: a deconstruction-and a reconstruction
- 7. Peer review and publication: lessons for lawyers
- 8. What's wrong with litigation-driven science?
- 9. Proving causation: the weight of combined evidence
- 10. Correlation and causation: the 'Bradford Hill Criteria' in epidemiological, legal, and epistemological perspective
- 11. Risky business: statistical proof of specific causation
- 12. Nothing fancy: some simple truths about truth in the law.