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This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.S. legal systems. Why are Black people stopped, arrested, and shot by police at such a high rate? Why are they
D. M. Jones
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D. M. Jones
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On the strength of presumptions
Pragmatics & Cognition, 2022AbstractTraditionally, a presumption is a dialogically privileged, yet defeasible proposition that allocates the burden of proof to a party who challenges it. This paper investigates the strength of presumptions. First, it explains how ‘strength’ contributes to defining the concept of presumption.
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Post-presumption argumentation and the post-truth world: on the conspiracy rhetoric of Donald Trump
Argumentation and Advocacy, 2019Building on the notion of post-truth, this essay suggests that Donald Trump—both as a candidate and president—has crafted a notion of post-presumption argumentation.
Ryan Neville-Shepard
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The Catholic presumption against war revisited
International Relations, 2019One of the most contested arguments in contemporary just war thinking has been the question of the right starting point of analysis. On one side of the argument, one finds Catholic Church officials who argue for a ‘presumption against war’ as jumping-off
C. Braun
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The presumption of consciousness
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014AbstractThroughout this article the authors presume – without justification – that decision making must be a conscious process unless proved otherwise, and they place an unreasonably strict burden of proof on anyone wishing to claim a role for unconscious processing.
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Law and Human Behavior, 2018
This research tests whether a police officer’s decision to apprehend a suspect triggers confirmation bias during an interrogation. The study also tests two strategies to reduce confirmation bias: (1) decoupling decision to apprehend from interrogation ...
Moa Lidén, Minna Gräns, P. Juslin
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This research tests whether a police officer’s decision to apprehend a suspect triggers confirmation bias during an interrogation. The study also tests two strategies to reduce confirmation bias: (1) decoupling decision to apprehend from interrogation ...
Moa Lidén, Minna Gräns, P. Juslin
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Between Presumption and Despair: Augustine's Hope for the Commonwealth
American Political Science Review, 2018Many political theorists dismiss Augustine as a pessimist about politics, assuming his “otherworldly” account of love precludes hope for this-worldly politics.
M. Lamb
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2021
The chapter shows that the history of presumptions in Scots law has been influenced by both the Canonist and Civilian legal traditions, with the latter undoubtedly predominant. The suggestion that Civilian influence on the Anglo-American law of presumptions occurred relatively late (in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) thanks to the earlier use ...
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The chapter shows that the history of presumptions in Scots law has been influenced by both the Canonist and Civilian legal traditions, with the latter undoubtedly predominant. The suggestion that Civilian influence on the Anglo-American law of presumptions occurred relatively late (in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) thanks to the earlier use ...
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