Evidence, inference and enquiry [Texte imprimé] / edited by Philip Dawid, William Twining and Mimi Vasilaki

Contributions issues d'une rencontre interdisciplinaire, tenue par l'Académie britannique à Londres, décembre 2007

Notes bibliogr.

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