Evidence and inference in history and law : interdisciplinary dialogues / edited by William Twining and Iain Hampsher-Monk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Twining, William, 1934-

Hampsher-Monk, Iain, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Inference.

Evidence.

Evidence (Law)--Philosophy.

Evidence (Law).

Physical Description:

354 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2003.

Summary:

However little that various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences might seem to have in common, they share certain interests in methodological problems relating to evidence, inference, and interpretation. By pursuing these shared interests across divergent topics and fields, the contributors to this book advance our understanding of how such truth-seeking, proof-finding methods work, and of what it means to prove something in a range of contexts. Coedited by William Twining, one of the world's outstanding evidence scholars, and Lain HempsherMonk, a leading political theorist, the volume considers intriguing questions from different realms--Assyriology, theatre iconography, musicology, criminology, the history of ideas and colonial history--as it reveals how particular concepts, lines of questioning, and techniques of reasoning and analysis developed in one context can be fruitfully applied in others.

Contents:

Evidence and inferences about past events: an overview of six case studies / David A. Schum

Reconstructing the truth about Edith Thompson: the Shakespearean and the jurist / William Twining and René Weis

Last wedge / M.J. Geller

Wigmore meets "the last wedge" / Terence J. Anderson

Wigmorean analysis and the survival of cuneiform / M.J. Geller

Mountebank: a case study in early modern theater iconography / M.A. Katritzky

Schubert Lieder and the guitar: musicological evidence and inference / Thomas F. Heck

Historical evidence and Dutch colonial labor relations / V.J.H. Houben

Evidence and inference in the history of political thought: the case of Locke's theory of property / Iain Hampsher-Monk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0810118939

0810117568

OCLC:

51907918