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'Aboriginality And Australian Cinematography: Engaging With History': Review Of One Night The Moon, Lorenzo Veracini Jan 2002

'Aboriginality And Australian Cinematography: Engaging With History': Review Of One Night The Moon, Lorenzo Veracini

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

'Aboriginality and Australian Cinematography: Engaging with History': Review of One Night the Moon, Rachel Perkins, dir., John Romeril sc., MusicArtsDance Films Pty Ltd, film released on 08/11/2001.


Conjectures And Exhumations: Citations Of History, Philosophy And Sociology Of Science In Us Federal Courts, Gary Edmond, David Mercer Jan 2002

Conjectures And Exhumations: Citations Of History, Philosophy And Sociology Of Science In Us Federal Courts, Gary Edmond, David Mercer

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This article examines the circumstances in which a version of Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science became US law. Among historians, philosophers and sociologists of science, as well as legal commentators, the US Supreme Court's Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, .Inc. (1993) decision has received considerable attention. The case is significant because America's most senior court produced a definition of science (for legal purposes). This definition was authorized by the symbolic exhumation, celebration and appropriation of key elements of the philosophy of science developed decades earlier by Popper. Significantly, it was not just Popper's philosophy that was exhumed and resurrected …