Evidence, inference and enquiry
Dawid, PhilipContributor
Vasilaki, MimiContributor
Twining, William LContributor
British AcademyContent Provider
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2011.
Scholars in diverse academic disciplines discuss the ways in which evidence is conceived, used and manipulated in their own fields. They explore the possibilities for cross-disciplinary fertilisation and ask if it is possible or desirable to develop general multidisciplinary criteria and methods for studying and handling evidence.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Scholars in diverse academic disciplines discuss the ways in which evidence is conceived, used and manipulated in their own fields. They explore the possibilities for cross-disciplinary fertilisation and ask if it is possible or desirable to develop general multidisciplinary criteria and methods for studying and handling evidence.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Philip Dawid -- Classifying forms and combinations of evidence : necessary in a science of evidence / David Schum -- Disciplining the disciplines / Jason Davies -- Moving beyond law : interdisciplinarity and the study of evidence / William Twining -- Inference networks : Bayes and Wigmore / Philip Dawid, David Schum and Amanda Hepler -- Arguing about the evidence : a logical approach / John Fox -- Thinking about evidence / David Lagnado -- Generalisations and evidential reasoning / Terence J. Anderson -- Are there universal principles or forms of evidential inference? : of inference networks and onto-epistemology / Peter Tillers -- Rhetoric evidence and policymaking : a case study of priority setting in primary care / Jill Russell and Trisha Greenhalgh -- A theory of evidence for evidence-based policy / Nancy Cartwright and Jacob Stegenga -- In praise of randomisation : the importance of causality in medicine and its subversion by philosophers of science / David Colquhoun -- What the ravens really teach us : the intrinsic contextuality of evidence / Hasok Chang and Grant Fisher -- Critical distance : stabilising evidential claims in archaeology / Alison Wylie -- Believing the evidence / Jason Davies -- What would a scientific economics look like? / Michael Joffe -- Reasonable doubt : uncertainty in education, science and law / Tony Gardner-Medwin.
Evidence
Inference
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion
Logic