Dear all,
This Thursday (11 Feb) at the Serious Metaphysics Group, Michael Blome-Tillman will be presenting his talk entitled 'More Likely Than Not' - Knowledge First and the Role of Bare Statistical Evidence in Courts of Law (abstract below). The serminar is at 1.00-2.30pm, at the Philosophy faculty board room. You're welcome to bring your lunch. For the rest of the Lent term card please have a look at the website: www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/SMG Best wishes, Li Li -- ABSTRACT The paper takes a closer look at the role of knowledge and evidence in legal theory. In particular, the paper examines a puzzle arising from the evidential standard Preponderance of the Evidence and its application in civil procedure. Legal scholars have argued since at least the 1940s that the rule of the Preponderance of the Evidence gives rise to a puzzle concerning the role of statistical evidence in judicial proceedings, sometimes referred to as the Problem of Bare Statistical Evidence. While this puzzle has led to the development of a multitude of accounts and approaches in the legal literature, I argue here that the problem can be resolved fairly straightforwardly within a knowledge-first framework. -- Li Li Tan PhD (Probationary) in Philosophy St Catharine's College _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
