Evidence, inference and enquiry
By: edited by Philip Dawid, William Twining and Mimi Vasilaki
Contributors: British Academy
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy -- 171; Proceedings of the British Academy -- 171.
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press; British Academy
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780197264843
Subjects: Congresses; Inference; Evidence
Other titles: Evidence, inference and inquiry
Notes: Papers from an interdisciplinary meeting held by the British Academy in London in December, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Philip Dawid; title: Classifying forms and combinations of evidence : necessary in a science of evidence / David Schum; title: Disciplining the disciplines / Jason Davies; title: Moving beyond law : interdisciplinarity and the study of evidence / William Twining; title: Inference networks : Bayes and Wigmore / Philip Dawid, David Schum and Amanda Hepler; title: Arguing about the evidence : a logical approach / John Fox; title: Thinking about evidence / David Lagnado; title: Generalisations and evidential reasoning / Terence J. Anderson; title: Are there universal principles or forms of evidential inference? : of inference networks and onto-epistemology / Peter Tillers; title: Rhetoric evidence and policymaking : a case study of priority setting in primary care / Jill Russell and Trisha Greenhalgh; title: A theory of evidence for evidence-based policy / Nancy Cartwright and Jacob Stegenga; title: In praise of randomisation : the importance of causality in medicine and its subversion by philosophers of science / David Colquhoun; title: What the ravens really teach us : the intrinsic contextuality of evidence / Hasok Chang and Grant Fisher; title: Critical distance : stabilising evidential claims in archaeology / Alison Wylie; title: Believing the evidence / Jason Davies; title: What would a scientific economics look like? / Michael Joffe; title: Reasonable doubt : uncertainty in education, science and law / Tony Gardner-Medwin.