The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hoskins, Zachary; Robson, Jon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection is the first book-length examination of the various epistemological issues underlying legal trials. Assessing the value of trials as truth-seeking endeavors requires that we consider a host of underlying social epistemological questions. The contributors to this volume address a number of these pressing questions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000345469
• Artikelnr.: 60755941

Autorenporträt

Zachary Hoskins is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is author of Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction (2019) and is co-editor of The New Philosophy of Criminal Law (2016) and International Criminal Law and Philosophy (2010). Jon Robson is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor of Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind (2014) and The Aesthetics of Videogames (Routledge, 2018) as well as co-author of A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction



Zachary Hoskins and Jon Robson



1. Credibility Deficits, Memory Errors, and the Criminal Trial



Kathy Puddifoot



2. Eyewitness Testimony, the Misinformation Effect, and Reasonable Doubt



Christopher Bennett



3. On Testifying and Giving Evidence



Stephen Wright



4. Explaining the Justificatory Asymmetry Between Statistical and Individualized Evidence



Renèe Jorgensen Bolinger



5. Character, "Propensities", and the (Mis)use of Statistics in Criminal Trials



R.A. Duff and S.E. Marshall



6. Against Legal Probabilism



Martin Smith



7. Justified Belief and Just Conviction



Clayton Littlejohn



8. The "She Said, He Said" Paradox and the Proof Paradox



Georgi Gardiner



9. Against the Odds: The Case for a Modal Understanding of Due Care



Jeffrey Helmreich and Duncan Pritchard



10. Criminal Trials for Preventive Deprivations of Liberty



Hadassa Noorda