"In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to examine how racial identity has been constructed in the United States over the past century. She examines a range of primary social case studies such as the American Red Cross' lamentable decision to segregate the blood of black and white donors during World War II, and its ramifications for American culture, and more recent examples that reveal the racist nature of criminology, such as the recent trial of O.J. Simpson. Among several key American literary texts, she looks at Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, a novel whose plot turns on issues of racial identity and which was written at a time when scientific and popular interest in evidence of the body, such as fingerprinting, was at a peak"--Publisher's description.
Legal theorists in Britain and the United States had lesser faith not in an absolute truth , but in their own ability ... In a direct reversal of eighteenth - century beliefs about the logical nature of legal reasoning , 17 Wills argued ...
8.4 Specifically , in considering the function of foreseeability in the Law of Tort , we will be concerned in this ... Finally , we will consider some points on which formal logic is perhaps clearer than conventional legal reasoning .
Probable arguments may be combined together in a chain : ( or , as it has been more appropriately called , a coil ) of ... Much legal evidence is of this kind , as when A testifies that he received a certain parcel from B , B that he ...
Probable arguments may be combined together in a chain ( or , as it has been more appropriately called , a coil ) of ... Much legal evidence is of this kind , as when A testifies that he received a certain parcel from B , B that he ...
Probable arguments may be combined together in a chain ( or , as it has been more appropriately called , a coil ) of ... Much legal evidence is of this kind , as when A testifies that he received a certain parcel from B , B that he ...
Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little prior knowledge of, philosophy, the books open up fascinating, yet sometimes difficult ideas. The series builds to give a solid grounding in philosophy and each book is also ideal as a companion to further study. An understanding of logic is fundamental to the study of philosophy. This stimulating and thorough guidebook offers clear explanation and exploration of the central issues and questions addressed when studying logic. The topics covered include: Reason and unreason; Proving a point; Entailment; Truth; The logic of components of speech and language. An invaluable resource for those studying logic for the first time, this text provides a sound grasp of a fascinating, but often complex - and even daunting - component of philosophy.
Innocent people could be found guilty as a result of poor legal reasoning . Sloppy scientific reasoning can lead to the propagation of false theories . It would therefore be of value to have some system of reasoning that was ...
Law and Philosophy 6 : 227-47 . ( 78 ) Hilpinen , R. ( ed . ) . 1981. New Studies in Deontic Logic . Dordrecht : Reidel . ( 79 ) Hilpinen , R. 1985. Normative conflicts and legal reasoning . In E. Bulygin et al . ( eds . ) ...
As a result , an adequate account can at last be given of the role of induction in legal reasoning from judicial precedent , where questions about width of scope are often more important than questions about strength of support .
... impartiality requires public officials to apply legal rules in an universalistic fashion , without favoring nor ... two parties who shared the same commitment to as well as the same interpretative framework of legal reasoning ) .
Let us give an example from legal reasoning . According to German law , a foreigner is usually expelled if they have committed a crime . One of the exceptions to this rule concerns political refugees . This information is expressed by ...
