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Title:

Evidence, inference and enquiry / edited by Philip Dawid, William Twining and Mimi Vasilaki.

Publisher:

Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xiv, 487 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Evidence--Congresses.
Inference--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Dawid, Philip.
Twining, William, 1934-
Vasilaki, Mimi.
British Academy.

Notes:

Papers from an interdisciplinary meeting held by the British Academy in London in December, 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 171

ISBN:

0197264840
9780197264843

OCLC:

(OCoLC)709682874

LCCN:

2011294480

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)