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Conjectures And Exhumations: Citations Of History, Philosophy And Sociology Of Science In Us Federal Courts, Gary Edmond, David Mercer
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 …
The Voices In The Making And Unmaking Of History: Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli, And Single Women In Late Victorian England, Sharon Crozier
The Voices In The Making And Unmaking Of History: Arnold Bennett, Marie Corelli, And Single Women In Late Victorian England, Sharon Crozier
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Historians are continually constructing and reconstructing, making and remaking history. Present-day preoccupations offer the historian new questions to ask and new directions to take and such an opening up of relatively unexplored areas of study has also led to the search for, and finding of, new sources to analyse. This is especially so in the branches of social history referred to as 'the history of mentalities' and 'cultural history'.