BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240328T131031Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20170416T194500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20170416T194500 SUMMARY:Knowledge\, Truth and the Criminal Trial UID:20240328T131031Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Nottingham\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:
CFP: Knowledge\, Truth and the Criminal Trial
\nUniversity of Nottingham
\nJune 19th-20th 2017
\n\nThe criminal trial aims to ascertain whether defendants have in fact committed the acts they are alleged to have committed\, and if so\, whether they did so intentionally\, recklessly\, or negligently. Criminal trials\, in other words\, are centrally concerned with determining truth. But are such trials truth-conducive? Assessing the value of trials as truth-seeking endeavours requires that we consider a host of underlying social epistemological questions\, including (but not limited to) these: How much credence should jurors give to eyewitness testimony? What role do legal requirements for truthfulness\, such as the prohibition against perjury\, play with respect to the reliability of such testimony?  \;How much credence to expert witnesses? Are juries\, in which a group of laypeople assembles to deliberate about the facts of a case\, effective means of arriving at justified beliefs about a defendant&rsquo\;s guilt or innocence? What degree of certainty should we require to support a verdict of &lsquo\;guilty&rsquo\;? These and similar questions raised by criminal trials have received fairly little attention from philosophers. This workshop aims to begin to remedy this neglect. This is a pre-read workshop and all participants will be expected to have read all of the papers (which will be circulated in advance) prior to the start of the workshop.
\n\nThis workshop is kindly funded by the Society for Applied Philosophy and the Analysis Trust.
\n\nSpeakers and discussants include:
\nChristopher Bennett (University of Sheffield)
\nAntony Duff (University of Stirling)
\nElizabeth Fricker (University of Oxford)
\nZach Hoskins (University of Nottingham)
\nSandra Marshall (University of Stirling)
\nFederico Picinali (LSE)
\nPaul Roberts (University of Nottingham)
\nMartin Smith (University of Edinburgh)
\nAness Webster (University of Nottingham)
\n\nThere is space for a small number of submitted papers during the workshop and we invite those who are interested to submit (suitably anonymised) abstracts of up to 500 words on relevant topics to jonathan.robson@nottingham.ac.uk by April 16th 2017. Funding is available to help defray travel\, accommodation and subsistence costs for speakers.
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