Decyzje

Varieties of Legal Probabilism: A Survey

Stefaniak, Małgorzata Urbaniak, Rafał

University of Gdansk

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Abstract

Legal Probabilism is the view that mathematics, and probability theory in particular, can be used to explicate the standard of legal decisions. While probabilistic tools are sometimes used in courtrooms, the construction of a general model of evidence evaluation remains a challenge. Conceptual difficulties facing Legal Probabilism include the difficulty about conjunction, the difficulty about corroboration and the gatecrasher paradox. These problems need to be addressed before we construct a general model. In this survey we discuss the three difficulties and present some theories proposed as their solutions.Małgorzata Stefaniak, Rafał Urbaniak

Metadata

Journal Decyzje 
Issue 30 
Issue date 2018 
Type Article 
Language en
Pagination 33-52
DOI 10.7206/DEC.1733-0092.112
ISSN 1733-0092
eISSN 2391-761X