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Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence Revisited

This article revisits "Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence", published twenty years ago. The evolution of the relative plausibility theory of juridical proof is offered as evidence of the advantage of a naturalized approach to the study of the field and law of evidence. Various alternative explanations of juridical proof from other disciplines are examined and their shortcomings described. These competing explanations are similar in their reductive, a priori approaches that are at odds with an empirically oriented naturalized approach. The shortcomings of the various a priori approaches are driven by their common methodological commitments to employing weird hypotheticals to engage in intuition mining about the American legal systems that in turn ignore important aspects of the actual legal systems and consistently make impossible epistemological demands. As a result, both their descriptions of and prescriptions for American legal systems are implausible, unlike the relative plausibility theory

Marcial Pons

Universitat de Girona. Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica

Autor: Allen, Ronald J.
Data: 1 juliol 2020
Resum: This article revisits "Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence", published twenty years ago. The evolution of the relative plausibility theory of juridical proof is offered as evidence of the advantage of a naturalized approach to the study of the field and law of evidence. Various alternative explanations of juridical proof from other disciplines are examined and their shortcomings described. These competing explanations are similar in their reductive, a priori approaches that are at odds with an empirically oriented naturalized approach. The shortcomings of the various a priori approaches are driven by their common methodological commitments to employing weird hypotheticals to engage in intuition mining about the American legal systems that in turn ignore important aspects of the actual legal systems and consistently make impossible epistemological demands. As a result, both their descriptions of and prescriptions for American legal systems are implausible, unlike the relative plausibility theory
Format: application/pdf
Accés al document: http://hdl.handle.net/10256/19280
Llenguatge: eng
Editor: Marcial Pons
Universitat de Girona. Càtedra de Cultura Jurídica
Col·lecció: info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.33115/udg_bib/qf.i2.22446
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2660-4515
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/2604-6202
Drets: Reconeixement 4.0 Internacional
URI Drets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Títol: Naturalized Epistemology and the Law of Evidence Revisited
Tipus: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Repositori: DUGiDocs

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