Evidence matters : science, proof, and truth in the law / Susan Haack, University of Miami.
Haack, Susan, author.
2014
K2261 .H32 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
Evidence matters : science, proof, and truth in the law / Susan Haack, University of Miami.
Author
Haack, Susan, author.
ISBN
9781107698345 paperback
1107698340 paperback
9781107039964 hardcover
1107039967 hardcover
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xxvi, 416 pages ; 23 cm.
Call Number
K2261 .H32 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
347/.06
Summary
"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 role can statistical evidence properly play? How can courts best handle the scientific testimony on which cases sometimes turn? How are they to distinguish reliable scientific testimony from unreliable hokum? The dozen interdisciplinary essays collected here explore a whole nexus of such questions about science, proof, and truth in the law. With her characteristic clarity and verve, in these essays Haack brings her original and distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues. She includes detailed analyses of a wide variety of cases and lucid summaries of relevant scientific work, of the many roles of the scientific peer-review system, and of relevant legal developments"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Includes glossary (pages 381-390).
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index.
Series
Law in context.
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Irreconcilable differences? : the troubled marriage of science and law
Trial and error : two confusions in Daubert
Federal philosophy of science : a deconstruction, and a reconstruction
Peer review and publication : lessons for lawyers
What's wrong with litigation-driven science?
Proving causation : the weight of combined evidence
Correlation and causation : the 'Bradford Hill Criteria' in epidemiological, legal, and epistemological perspective
Risky business: statistical proof of specific causation
Nothing fancy : some simple truths about truth in the law.

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