Overview
Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law presents a cross-disciplinary overview of the core issues in the theory and methodology of adjudicative evidence and factfinding, assembling the major philosophical and interdisciplinary insights that define evidence theory, as related to law, in a single book. The volume presents contemporary debates on truth, knowledge, rational beliefs, proof, argumentation, explanation, coherence, probability, economics, psychology, bias, gender, and race. It covers different theoretical approaches to legal evidence, including the Bayesian approach, scenario theory, and inference to the best explanation. The volumes contributions come from scholars spread across three continents and twelve different countries, whose common interest is evidence theory as related to law-- from publisher's website.
- | Author: Christian Dahlman
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 30, 2021
- | Number of Pages: 433 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Law
- | ISBN-10: 0198859309
- | ISBN-13: 9780198859307
