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Contents<br/>Preface<br/>Table of Works Represented, with Abbreviations Used;<br/>Evidence, Proof, and Facts: Introductory Essay;<br/>1. The Concept of Evidence and the Law of Evidence;<br/>SECTION 1: WHAT IS EVIDENCE? <br/>Bentham, Rationale<br/>Schum, Foundations<br/>SECTION 2: DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE<br/>Thayer, Preliminary Treatise<br/>Holdsworth, History<br/>Twining, Rethinking Evidence<br/>SECTION 3: ARE EXCLUSIONARY RULES OF EVIDENCE NEEDED?<br/>Bentham, Rationale<br/>Stephen, Report<br/>SECTION 4: THE PHILOSOPHY UNDERLYING THE LAW OF EVIDENCE: OPTIMISTIC RATIONALISM<br/>Twining, Theories<br/>2. Logic and Rhetoric<br/>SECTION 1: LOGIC, DEDUCTIVE REASONING, AND THE SYLLOGISM<br/>Aristotle, Topics<br/>Aristotle, Prior Analytics<br/>Mill, System<br/>SECTION 2: REJECTION OF THE SYLLOGISM AS A SCIENTIFIC METHOD<br/>Bacon, Novum Organum<br/>Hume, Enquiry<br/>Schum, Foundations<br/>SECTION 3: LOGIC, INDUCTIVE REASONING, AND INFERENCES FROM EVIDENCE<br/>Schmidt, The Influence of the Legal Paradigm on the Development of Logic<br/>Mill, System<br/>SECTION 4: LOGICAL FALLACIES<br/>Mill, System<br/>SECTION 5: DIALECTIC AND RHETORIC<br/>Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric<br/>Plato, Gorgias<br/>Plato, Phaedrus<br/>3. Judicial Reasoning About Facts<br/>SECTION 1: RELEVANCE<br/>Stephen, Digest<br/>US Federal Rule of Evidence 401<br/>Bentham, Rationale<br/>Schum, Foundations<br/>Keynes, Treatise<br/>SECTION 2: DIRECT AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE<br/>Bentham, Rationale<br/>SECTION 3: THE PROCESS OF JUDICIAL REASONING<br/>Thayer, Preliminary Treatise<br/>Wigmore, Science<br/>SECTION 4: PROBATIVE VALUE AND WEIGHT<br/>Bentham, Rationale<br/>Keynes, Treatise<br/>SECTION 5: GENERALIZATIONS<br/>Hume, Enquiry<br/>Bentham, Rationale<br/>Mill, System<br/>4. Causation<br/>SECTION 1: PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR THEORY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT<br/>Aristotle, Physics<br/>Locke, Essay<br/>Hume, Treatise<br/>Hume, Enquiry<br/>Mill, System<br/>SECTION 2: CAUSE AND EFFECT AS BASIS FOR INFERENCE FROM EVIDENCE<br/>Hart and Honore, Causation<br/>Schum, Foundations<br/>SECTION 3: LEGAL APPLICATIONS OF CAUSATION<br/>Hart and Honore, Causation<br/>5. The Standard of Proof<br/>SECTION 1: RELATIONSHIP OF INDUCTIVE REASONING TO STANDARDS OF PROOF<br/>Cohen, The Probable and the Provable<br/>SECTION 2: PROOF BY A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE<br/>Rhesa Shipping Co SA v. Edmunds (The Popi M)<br/>T.N.T. Management Pty. Ltd. v. Brooks<br/>Cohen, The Probable and the Provable<br/>SECTION 3: PROOF BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT<br/>Shapiro, Beyond Reasonable Doubt<br/>Cohen, The Probable and the Provable<br/>SECTION 4: DECISION THEORY IN RELATION TO STANDARDS OF PROOF<br/>Kaplan, Decision Theory and the Factfinding Process<br/>Tribe, Trial by Mathematics: Precision and Ritual in the Legal Process<br/>6. Theories of Probability<br/>SECTION 1: PROBABILITY THEORIES GENERALLY<br/>Locke, Essay<br/>Hume, Treatise<br/>Bentham, Rationale<br/>Keynes, Treatise<br/>SECTION 2: PROBABILITY APPLIED TO HUMAN CONDUCT AND CREDIBILITY<br/>Keynes, Treatise<br/>Eggleston, Evidence, Proof, and Probability<br/>SECTION 3: THE PRINCIPLE OF INDIFFERENCE<br/>Cohen, Introduction<br/>7. Probability: Issues of Mathematics<br/>SECTION 1: MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY CALCULUS<br/>Mill, System<br/>Schum, Foundations<br/>Cohen, Introduction<br/>SECTION 2: REVISION OF PROBABILITY ESTIMATES IN LIGHT OF NEW EVIDENCE: BAYES' RULE<br/>Schum, Foundations<br/>Bayes, Essay<br/>SECTION 3: MATHEMATICS IN THE COURTROOM<br/>People v. Collins<br/>R v. Adams (No. 2)<br/>8. Probability: Mathematical and Non-Mathematical Models<br/>SECTION 1: MON-MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY MODELS<br/>Mill, System<br/>Keynes, Treatise<br/>Cohen, Introduction<br/>Cohen, The Probable and the Provable<br/>SECTION 2: PASCAL OR BACON? THE GREAT DEBATE<br/>Tribe, Trial by Mathematics: Precision and Ritual in the Legal Process<br/>Kaye, The Laws of Probability and the Laws of the Land<br/>9. Alternative Epistemologies of Evidence<br/>SECTION 1: CHANCE AND ACAUSAL CONNECTIONS<br/>Aristotle, Physics<br/>Mill, System<br/>SECTION 2: THE OLDER MODES OF PROOF<br/>Holdsworth, History<br/>Hammurabi, Code<br/>Manu, Laws<br/>Supakar, The Law of Evidence in Ancient India<br/>SECTION 3: A WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE<br/>Harmon, Etchings on Glass<br/>APPENDIX 1: INFERENCE NETWORKS AND THE CHARTING OF EVIDENCE<br/>Wigmore, The Problem of Proof<br/>APPENDIX 2: SOME COMMONLY USED HYPOTHETICALS<br/>Index. |