Epistemología de virtudes robusta: sobre los límites y las posibilidades de su aplicación a la prueba de los hechos en el derecho
The purpose of this paper is to define the general features of a suitable epistemology for law. In particular, the paper is concerned with a very influential project that is nowadays offered in the literature: robust virtue epistemology. As I will show here, such a project is untenable for law, sinc...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
2017-04-01
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| Series: | Crítica |
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| Online Access: | http://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/pg/en/descarga.php?id_volumen=179&id_articulo=1117 |
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| Summary: | The purpose of this paper is to define the general features of a suitable epistemology for law. In particular, the paper is concerned with a very influential project that is nowadays offered in the literature: robust virtue epistemology. As I will show here, such a project is untenable for law, since a satisfactory and complete epistemology of legal proof requires the conjunction of both the agent’s perspective (the “trier-of-facts”) and the inquiry system’s perspective (the rules of evidence).
Keywords: legal epistemology, judicial reasoning, legal fact-finding, epistemic virtues, virtue jurisprudence |
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| ISSN: | 0011-1503 1870-4905 |