Interrogating Evidence: Epistemological Challenges in the Contemporary World
What social practices are used to constitute evidence? What counts as evidence and why? How are different types of evidence processed, and how do…
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This thematic thread proposes anthropological, reflexive accounts of the production of evidence beyond the disciplinary confines of anthropology. Curated by Agathe Mora.
A Short Reflection on the Evidentiality of Evidence
Evidence sometimes suffers from a peculiar problem. It is not always evident. I call this the problem of the evidentiality of evidence. By definition,…
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Emerging Evidence
My goal is to skirt gingerly around evidence leaving it just where it lies, and instead to prod the contingent margins where iterative social…
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Evidence for the future: time and proof in commercial risk forecasting
“We are an intelligence and analysis company that forecasts. We are not a news organisation that tells stories. We are not political scientists who…
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Does Evidence Matter?
Evidence, whether in law, in natural or social science, or in belief systems, is about establishing certainty. Evidence has thus been central to law,…
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Cultural evidence and the law
How do we decide whether or not to accept the evidence of our senses, or to put our faith in the statements of others?…
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