critical-thinking/course_outline/course3-Evidence/README.md

Evidence and Proof

Proof, Evidence, & Skepticism

1. Burden of Proof
2. Assertion
3. Evidence in Law
4. Burden of Proof in Law
5. Jurisprudence
6. Legal Concept of Evidence
7. Scientific Evidence
8. Theories
9. Hypotheses
10. Doubt
11. Fact
12. Statements
13. Truth
14. Belief_revision
15. Justification
16. Cherry Picking
17. Belief Perserverance
18. Counterargument
19. Sources of Knowledge
20. Epistemic Closure
21. Philosophy of Evidence
22. Evidence
23. Evidence Based Practices
24. Evidence Based Policy
25. Documentary_evidence
26. Eyewitness_testimony
27. Eyewitnesses
28. Testimony
29. Forensic Science
30. United_States_evidence_law
31. Hierarchy_of_evidence
32. Evidence Based Practice Toolkit
    • Understanding Evidence-Based Public Health Policy
    • Clinical Terms
    • NCBI Guide
    • NCBI Practitioners Guide
    • An Introduction to Evidence Based Medicine
    • How to Appraise a Clinical Trial - Part 1
    • How to Appraise a Clinical Trial - Part 2
    • How to Appraise a Clinical Trial - Part 3

People

1. Ronald J Allen
   • Relative plausibility and its critics
   • Evidence Probability and the Burden of Proof
   • Burdens of Proof
   • Mathematical Models of Evidence
   • The Common Law Theory of Experts: Deference or Education?
   • New Directions for Evidence Science
   • Ronald J. Allen, Evidence Theory or Science? Legal Epistemology Meets its Parents and Isn’t Pleased
   • Standards of proof and the limits of legal analysis
2. Andres Paez
   • Evidential Reasoning and Cognitive Bias
   • Probability-lowering causes and the connotations of causation
   • The prediction of future behavior: The empty promises of expert clinical and actuarial testimony
   • Explanation, Understanding, and Belief Revision
   • An Epistemological Analysis of the Use of Reputation as Evidence
   • Andrés Páez: Deciding whom to believe; testimony as evidence.
3. Susan Haack
   • Foundherentism
4. William Twining
   • William Twining: The Man Who Radicalized the Middle Ground
5. Michael S Moore
   • Moore on Causation and Responsibility: Metaphysics or Intuition?
   • Michael S. Moore, Causation and Responsibility: An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics
   • Legal_Responsibility_and_Scalar_Causation
   • INTRODUCTION: THE NATURE OF SINGULARIST THEORIES OF CAUSATION
6. John_Henry_Wigmore
7. David A Schum
8. Richard Posner
9. Jennifer Mnookin
   • Of Black boxes, instruments, and experts: Testing the validity of forensic science
   • Jennifer L. Mnookin: The ongoing epistemic challenges of forensic science as legal evidence.
   • Is Some Forensic Science "Junk" Science? Jennifer Mnookin Interview With Malcolm Fleschner
   • The Uncertain Future of Forensic Science
10. Jane Stapleton
    • Legal Cause: Cause-in-Fact and the Scope of Liability for Consequences
    • Review: Law, Causation and Common Sense
    • Unnecessary Cause
11. Paolo-Garbolino
    • Evaluation of Scientific Evidence Using Baysian Networks
    • Explaining Relevance
    • The Scientification of Forensic Practice
    • Historical Narratives, Evidence, and Explanations
    • The Bayes’ factor: the coherent measure for hypothesis confirmation
    • Coherently updating degrees of belief: Radical Probabilism, the generalization of Bayes’ Theorem and its consequences on evidence evaluation
    • Paolo Garbolino: Evidence and Probabilistic Explanations.
12. Barbara Osimani
    • Hunting Side Effects and Explaining Them: Should We Reverse Evidence Hierarchies Upside Down?
    • Until RCT proven? On the asymmetry of evidence requirements for risk assessment
    • Barbara Osimani: Statistical Evidence in Strategic Environments