Law and epistemology: An account of judgement

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1-2021

Abstract

Three key components of a legal case are evidence, fact and judgement. In a well conducted judgement there will be an appropriate relation between these three components. Epistemologists investigating the nature of knowledge have been concerned with an analogous three components and their relation. More specifically, epistemologists have been concerned with justification, truth, and belief and how these three components need to be related if there is to be knowledge. Given the analogy, the research of epistemologists plausibly has insights to offer to legal theorists. In fact, as we shall see, what epistemology have to offer legal theory actually goes beyond this as well.

Keywords

evidence, fact, judgement, justification, truth, belief, knowledge, legal theory, epistemologists

Discipline

Epistemology

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Facts and evidence

Editor

ZHANG, Baosheng; TONG, Shijun; CAO, Jing; FAN, Chuanming

First Page

73

Last Page

78

ISBN

978-981-15-9638-4

Identifier

10.1007/978-981-15-9639-1_7

Publisher

Springer, Singapore

Additional URL

http://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9639-1_7

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