Truth And Evidence

Author : Melissa Schwartzberg,Philip Kitcher
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479811601

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Truth and Evidence by Melissa Schwartzberg,Philip Kitcher Pdf

Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth world The relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more troubled, with misinformation on the rise, and the value of expertise in democratic decision-making increasingly being dismissed. In Truth and Evidence, the latest installment in the NOMOS series, Melissa Schwartzberg and Philip Kitcher bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars in political science, law, and philosophy to explore the most pressing questions about the role of truth, evidence, and knowledge in government. In nine timely essays, contributors examine what constitutes political knowledge, who counts as an expert, how we should weigh evidence, and what can be done to address deep disinformation. Together, they address urgent questions such as what facts we require to confront challenges like COVID-19; what it means to #BelieveWomen; and how white supremacy shapes the law of evidence. Essential reading for our fraught political moment, Truth and Evidence considers the importance of truth in the face of widespread efforts to turn it into yet another tool of political power.

Author : Susan Haack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107039964

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Evidence Matters by Susan Haack Pdf

Susan Haack brings her distinctive work in theory of knowledge and philosophy of science to bear on real-life legal issues.

Author : John Bair
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780128110577

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Seeking the Truth from Mobile Evidence by John Bair Pdf

Seeking the Truth from Mobile Evidence: Basic Fundamentals, Intermediate and Advanced Overview of Current Mobile Forensic Investigations will assist those who have never collected mobile evidence and augment the work of professionals who are not currently performing advanced destructive techniques. This book is intended for any professional that is interested in pursuing work that involves mobile forensics, and is designed around the outcomes of criminal investigations that involve mobile digital evidence. Author John Bair brings to life the techniques and concepts that can assist those in the private or corporate sector. Mobile devices have always been very dynamic in nature. They have also become an integral part of our lives, and often times, a digital representation of where we are, who we communicate with and what we document around us. Because they constantly change features, allow user enabled security, and or encryption, those employed with extracting user data are often overwhelmed with the process. This book presents a complete guide to mobile device forensics, written in an easy to understand format. Provides readers with basic, intermediate, and advanced mobile forensic concepts and methodology Thirty overall chapters which include such topics as, preventing evidence contamination, triaging devices, troubleshooting, report writing, physical memory and encoding, date and time stamps, decoding Multi-Media-Messages, decoding unsupported application data, advanced validation, water damaged phones, Joint Test Action Group (JTAG), Thermal and Non-Thermal chip removal, BGA cleaning and imaging, In-System-Programming (ISP), and more Popular JTAG boxes – Z3X and RIFF/RIFF2 are expanded on in detail Readers have access to the companion guide which includes additional image examples, and other useful materials

Author : Sherrilyn Roush,Sherrilyn Marie Roush
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199274734

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Tracking Truth by Sherrilyn Roush,Sherrilyn Marie Roush Pdf

Tracking Truth presents a unified treatment of knowledge, evidence, and epistemological realism and anti-realism about scientific theories. A wide range of knowledge-related phenomena, especially but not only in science, strongly favour the idea of tracking as the key to what makes something knowledge. A subject who tracks the truth - an idea first formulated by Robert Nozick - has the ability to follow the truth through time and changing circumstances. Epistemologistsrightly concluded that Nozick's theory was not viable, but a simple revision of that view is not only viable but superior to other current views. In this new tracking account of knowledge, in contrast to the old view, knowledge has the property of closure under known implication, and troublesome counterfactualsare replaced with well-defined conditional probability statements. Of particular interest are the new view's treatment of skepticism, reflective knowledge, lottery propositions, knowledge of logical truth, and the question why knowledge is power in the Baconian sense.Ideally, evidence indicates a hypothesis and discriminates it from other possible hypotheses. This is the idea behind a tracking view of evidence, and Sherrilyn Roush provides a defence of a confirmation theory based on the Likelihood Ratio. The accounts of knowledge and evidence she offers provide a deep and seamless explanation of why having better evidence makes one more likely to have knowledge. Roush approaches the question of epistemological realism about scientific theories through thequestion what is required for evidence, and rejects both traditional realist and traditional anti-realist positions in favour of a new position which evaluates realist claims in a piecemeal fashion according to a general standard of evidence. The results show that while anti-realists were immodest indeclaring a priori what science could not do, realists were excessively sanguine about how far our actual evidence has so far taken us.

Author : H. L. Ho
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199228300

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A Philosophy of Evidence Law by H. L. Ho Pdf

This book examines the legal and moral theory behind the law of evidence and proof, arguing that only by exploring the nature of responsibility in fact-finding can the role and purpose of much of the law be fully understood. Ho argues that the court must not only find the truth to do justice, it must do justice in finding the truth.

Author : Thomas Boysen Anker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317535065

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Truth in Marketing by Thomas Boysen Anker Pdf

Can we believe the claims that marketers make? Does truth in marketing matter? Apparently not... Despite the role of regulators, marketing claims are often ruled to be misleading, deceptive or incomplete. Surprisingly, scholars of marketing ethics have devoted little time to this key issue. This may be because although key codes of marketing conduct insist on truthful communications, there is only limited understanding of what truthfulness itself actually entails. This innovative book develops a theory of truth in marketing and discusses the implications for consumers, marketing professionals and policymakers. Focusing on the problem of truth in marketing, it analyses the theory of truth in marketing, and examines the wider significance of marketing truth for society. Using a wide selection of engaging global examples and cases to illustrate this fascinating analysis, this engaging book will provide a provocative read for all scholars and educators in marketing, marketing/business ethics and CSR.

Author : Larry Laudan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139457088

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Truth, Error, and Criminal Law by Larry Laudan Pdf

Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts routinely claim, the overriding aim of the criminal justice system. Laudan mounts a systematic critique of existing rules and procedures that are obstacles to that quest. He also examines issues of error distribution by offering the first integrated analysis of the various mechanisms - the standard of proof, the benefit of the doubt, the presumption of innocence and the burden of proof - for implementing society's view about the relative importance of the errors that can occur in a trial.

Author : Yazid Ben Hounet,Deborah Puccio-Den
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317238959

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Truth, Intentionality and Evidence by Yazid Ben Hounet,Deborah Puccio-Den Pdf

This book provides an anthropological exploration of the ways in which crime is perceived and defined, focusing on notions of truth, intentionality, and evidence. The chapters contain rich ethnographic case studies drawn from work in the Middle East, Africa, India, Mexico and Europe. A variety of instances are discussed, from court proceedings, police reports and newspapers to moments of conflict resolution and reconciliation. Through analysis of this material, the authors reflect on how perception of an act as a crime can differ and how the definition of crime may not be shared by all societies. The approach takes into consideration local standards as well as social, legal and contextual constraints.

Author : Hannu Tapani Klami,Minna Gräns,Johanna Sorvettula
Publisher : Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Burden of proof
ISBN : 951653306X

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Law and Truth by Hannu Tapani Klami,Minna Gräns,Johanna Sorvettula Pdf

Author : Lee McIntyre
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262345989

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Post-Truth by Lee McIntyre Pdf

How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence. Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake news,” from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into “information silos.” What, exactly, is post-truth? Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying? McIntyre analyzes recent examples—claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote—and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism—specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth—in its attacks on science and facts. McIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.

Author : Caroline Brown
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783301821

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Archival Futures by Caroline Brown Pdf

Firmly rooted in current professional debate and scholarship, Archival Futures offers thought provoking and accessible chapters that aim to challenge and inspire archivists globally and to encourage debate about their futures.

Author : Victor Pearce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 0863472656

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Evidence for Truth by Victor Pearce Pdf

Author : Cailin O'Connor,James Owen Weatherall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780300241006

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The Misinformation Age by Cailin O'Connor,James Owen Weatherall Pdf

“Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy.” —Kirkus Reviews Editors’ choice, The New York Times Book Review Recommended reading, Scientific American Why should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O’Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what’s essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false beliefs. It might seem that there’s an obvious reason that true beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that’s right, then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they believe true things or not? The Misinformation Age, written for a political era riven by “fake news,” “alternative facts,” and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know. If social forces explain the persistence of false belief, we must understand how those forces work in order to fight misinformation effectively. “[The authors] deftly apply sociological models to examine how misinformation spreads among people and how scientific results get misrepresented in the public sphere.” —Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American “A notable new volume . . . The Misinformation Age explains systematically how facts are determined and changed—whether it is concerning the effects of vaccination on children or the Russian attack on the integrity of the electoral process.” —Roger I. Abrams, New York Journal of Books

Author : Liat Levanon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509942671

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Evidence, Respect and Truth by Liat Levanon Pdf

Can we rely solely on statistics when we judge what is true and just? This book takes a holistic approach to addressing this question. It considers the legal trial as its paradigmatic case study before analysing a wide range of different cases, including profiling, the use of algorithms to predict students' grades, and the authorisation of automated cars. The book suggests that when we make judgements about the truth or about justice, approximations are not good enough. Truth and justice are uncompromising. They must be so, because the value that underlies them both is respect; and respect takes no compromise. Thus, in the search for truth as in the search for justice, a body of evidence that imposes a statistical compromise will not do. Only evidence that in principle allows reaching the truth and doing justice is good evidence. Once such evidence has been traced, the burden is on us to make good use of the evidence and reach truth and justice. We might or might not succeed, but once we have done our best on evidence that allows success, our judgements are justified; and as such, they can resolve conflicts over the truth and over justice.

Author : Alexander Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013657929

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Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion by Alexander Keith Pdf