Numbers in the Court of Law
Panel Discussion
Friday, 11 Sep 2009 at 7:30 pm – Campanile Room, Memorial Union
This panel concludes the daylong event "Should We Trust the Numbers? A Workshop on Philosophy, Mathematics and Statistics in the Court of Law," which brings together multiple perspectives on the question of whether we can, or should, count on numbers in a court of law. Iowa State faculty Alicia Carriquiry, Statistics, and Kevin de Laplante, Philosophy, will join guest speakers Susan Haack and Joseph Kadane. Wolfgang Kliemann, chair of Mathematics, will moderate. Susan Haack is a noted expert on the philosophy of mathematics and the use of numbers. She is the Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences and a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami. Joseph Kadane is an authority on legal statistics and the Leonard J. Savage University Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon University. Part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration.A full schedule of events is available at www.las.iastate.edu/50th/thenumbersworkshop
Featured lectures include:
Proving Causation: The Holism of Warrant and the Atomism of Daubert - Susan Haack
3:45 p.m., Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Susan Haack is a noted expert on the philosophy of mathematics and the use of numbers,. She is the Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Sciences and a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Miami.
A Subjective Bayesian in Court Joseph B. Kadane
4:30 p.m. , Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Joseph Kadane is an authority on legal statistics. The Leonard J. Savage University Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon University, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
A dessert reception will precede the evening event at 7:00 p.m. in the Campanile Room. The workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged.
Cosponsored By:
- Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Mathematics
- Philosophy
- Statistics
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
Stay for the entire event, including the brief question-and-answer session that follows the formal presentation. Most events run 75 minutes.
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