Evidence, Inference and Enquiry
Evidence, Inference and Enquiry
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Abstract
Evidence — its nature and interpretation — is the key to many topical debates and concerns such as global warming, evolution, the search for weapons of mass destruction, DNA profiling, and evidence-based medicine. In 2004, University College London launched a cross-disciplinary research programme ‘Evidence, Inference and Enquiry’ to explore the question: ‘Can there be an integrated multidisciplinary science of evidence?’ While this question was hotly contested and no clear final consensus emerged, much was learned on the journey. This book, based on the closing conference of the programme held at the British Academy in December 2007, illustrates the complexity of the subject, with seventeen chapters written from a diversity of perspectives including Archaeology, Computer Science, Economics, Education, Health, History, Law, Psychology, Philosophy, and Statistics. General issues covered include principles and systems for handling complex evidence, evidence for policy-making, and human evidence-processing, as well as the very possibility of systematising the study of evidence.
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Front Matter
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Introduction
PHILIP DAWID
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Classifying Forms and Combinations of Evidence: Necessary in a Science of Evidence
DAVID SCHUM
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Disciplining the Disciplines
JASON DAVIES
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Moving Beyond Law: Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Evidence
WILLIAM TWINING
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Inference Networks: Bayes and Wigmore
PHILIP DAWID and others
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Arguing about the Evidence: a Logical Approach
JOHN FOX
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Thinking about Evidence
DAVID LAGNADO
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Generalisations and Evidential Reasoning
TERENCE J. ANDERSON
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Are there Universal Principles or Forms of Evidential Inference? Of Inference Networks and Onto-Epistemology
PETER TILLERS
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Rhetoric, Evidence and Policymaking: a Case Study of Priority Setting in Primary Care
JILL RUSSELL andTRISHA GREENHALGH
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A Theory of Evidence for Evidence-Based Policy
NANCY CARTWRIGHT andJACOB STEGENGA
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In Praise of Randomisation: The Importance of Causality in Medicine and its Subversion by Philosophers of Science
DAVID COLQUHOUN
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What the Ravens Really Teach Us: the Intrinsic Contextuality of Evidence
HASOK CHANG andGRANT FISHER
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Critical Distance: Stabilising Evidential Claims in Archaeology
ALISON WYLIE
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Believing the Evidence
JASON DAVIES
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What Would a Scientific Economics Look Like?
MICHAEL JOFFE
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Reasonable Doubt: Uncertainty in Education, Science and Law
TONY GARDNER-MEDWIN
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