Issue 3

EVIDENCE AND LAW

Guest Editors: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Frederick Schauer

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Frederick Schauer: Introduction

Susan Haack: Warrant, Causation, and the Atomism of Evidence Law

Dale A. Nance: The Weights of Evidence

Larry Laudan: The Elementary Epistemic Arithmetic of Criminal Justice

Frederick Schauer: In Defense of Rule-Based Evidence Law – and Epistemology Too

Amalia Amaya: Justification, Coherence, and Epistemeic Responsibility in Legal Fact-Finding

Ronald J. Allen: Explanation All the Way Down

Michael J. Sacks: Explaining the Tension between the Supreme Court’s Embrace of Validity as the Touchstone of Admissibility of Expert Testimony and Lower Courts’ (Seeming) Rejection of Some

Jennifer L. Mnookin: Of Black Boxes, Instruments, and Experts: Testing the Validity of Forensic Science

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adina Roskies, Teneille Brown, and Emily Murphy: Brain Images as Legal Evidence

Edward Stein: A Functional Approach to the Spousal Evidentiary Privileges

Karen Petroski: The Public Face of Presumptions

Alex Stein: On the Epistemic Authority of Courts