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DESCRIPTION:The Faculty of Law and the Department of Philosophy welcome Dr 
 Susan Haack\, Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Miami\,
  for a Legal Theory Workshop.\n\nAbstract\n\nJeremy Bentham writes of “Inj
 ustice\, and her handmaid\, Falsehood”\; and the metaphor rings true. Subs
 tantive justice is possible only if there is such a thing as factual truth
 \; if such truth is objective\, not simply a matter of what anyone\, or ev
 eryone\, believes\; and if it is often enough possible for us to figure ou
 t what the truth of a disputed matter of fact is. This last point in turn 
 requires that there be objective standards of better and worse evidence\; 
 and that the fact that the evidence with respect to a claim is\, by these 
 standards\, good be at least a fallible indication of the likely truth of 
 the claim in question. Unless these presuppositions are true\, the whole i
 dea of legal proof-procedures would be a kind of cruel farce. Even if thes
 e assumptions are true\, however\, if legal proof-procedures are to be mor
 e than judicial theater they need to be capable of arriving\, often enough
 \, at factually correct verdicts.\n\nIn the first part of her lecture\, Pr
 of. Haack argues that these presuppositions are indeed true\; in the secon
 d part\, however\, as she explores the competence of common-law evidentiar
 y procedures to produce true verdicts and briefly contrasts them with civi
 l-law procedures\, she expresses doubt that\, in practice\, they succeed a
 s often as we would like.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nSusan Haack (B.A.\, M.A.
 \, B.Phil.\, Oxford\; Ph.D.\, Cambridge) is Distinguished Professor in the
  Humanities\, Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences\, Professor of Ph
 ilosophy\, and Professor of Law at the University of Miami. She teaches bo
 th in the College of Arts and Sciences and in the School of Law.\n\nHer wo
 rk ranges from philosophy of logic and language\, epistemology\, metaphysi
 cs\, philosophy of science\, Pragmatism—both philosophical and legal—and t
 he law of evidence\, especially scientific evidence\, to social philosophy
 \, feminism\, and philosophy of literature.\n\n \n\n \n
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LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Justice\, Truth\, and Proof: Not So Simple\, After All
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 -simple-after-all-267295
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