Looking for evidence
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Looking for evidence
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ann address: EHESS, Salle 015, 190-198 Avenue de France, 75013 PARIS
ann categories: EMCA
ann categories: legal seting
ann categories: evidence
ann categories: proving
ann from: 2016-03-16Z
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ann short summary: Looking for evidence: a 1-day meeting on types & practices of proving & evidence in legal settings, Paris, 16/03/16
ann short title: Looking for evidence
ann text: It can be said that evidencing is a ubiquitous social practice. When assessing whether some statement is right or wrong, one generally asks one’s interlocutor to document it one way or another. Evidence is also frequently used to better ground a claim, its cogency and its truthfulness. Moreover, there are institutions whose functioning is largely dependent on the production of evidence. Such is the case of sciences, be it natural or human, and most obviously of the law. In this specific domain, evidence is used as the driver of the formal syllogism that leads to the application of a legal provision to a situation presented as factual. Every specific setting has criteria to establish whether something is sufficiently evidenced, which may vary from loose to tight according to the context’s specific purposes and constraints. Beyond the sharing of the same conceptual heading, what is it that makes e.g. mathematical and archaeological evidencing look like each other? What is the relationship that must be established between a fact and a theory (or a legal proposition) which allows the former to provide the latter with its evidence (and thus judicial implementation)? The law accepts a margin of flexibility, like the principle of “reasonable doubt”. There are domains where evidence is accepted under the “ceteris paribus” clause. In the field of sciences, the criteria are very different according to whether they are of a verificationist type or of a contingent, historical type. In any case, evidence must be treated as a conceptual issue, that is, as an issue which does not find its solution in more empirical findings, but in the logical bind woven between these findings and what they serve explaining. This one-day meeting on the practice of proving aims first at looking at the family resemblances between different types of evidence production, and second at exploring the specific case of the practice of evidence in judicial settings. It is organized around Prof. Michael Lyn…
ann title: Looking for evidence 2016: The practice of proving in science, humanities, and law
ann to: 2016-03-16Z
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ann type: Workshop
ann web link: https://www.ehess.fr/fr/journées-détude/looking-evidence-practice-proving-science-humanities-and-law
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