1st Edition
The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials
Introduction
Zachary Hoskins and Jon Robson
1. Credibility Deficits, Memory Errors, and the Criminal Trial
Kathy Puddifoot
2. Eyewitness Testimony, the Misinformation Effect, and Reasonable Doubt
Christopher Bennett
3. On Testifying and Giving Evidence
Stephen Wright
4. Explaining the Justificatory Asymmetry Between Statistical and Individualized Evidence
Renèe Jorgensen Bolinger
5. Character, "Propensities", and the (Mis)use of Statistics in Criminal Trials
R.A. Duff and S.E. Marshall
6. Against Legal Probabilism
Martin Smith
7. Justified Belief and Just Conviction
Clayton Littlejohn
8. The "She Said, He Said" Paradox and the Proof Paradox
Georgi Gardiner
9. Against the Odds: The Case for a Modal Understanding of Due Care
Jeffrey Helmreich and Duncan Pritchard
10. Criminal Trials for Preventive Deprivations of Liberty
Hadassa Noorda
Biography
Zachary Hoskins is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is author of Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction (2019) and is co-editor of The New Philosophy of Criminal Law (2016) and International Criminal Law and Philosophy (2010).
Jon Robson is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor of Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind (2014) and The Aesthetics of Videogames (Routledge, 2018) as well as co-author of A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time (2016).
