Strong, weak, or apparent naturalization? relative plausibility theory and conceptual analysis

• Autores: Nicola Muffato
• Localización: Quaestio facti. Revista internacional sobre razonamiento probatorio, ISSN-e 2604-6202, Nº. 2, 2021, págs. 313-324
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paper questions the naturalized epistemological framework for Allen’s relative plau-sibility theory (RPT). It is divided into two main sections: §1 is devoted to show that the weak/modest naturalism of Allen’s central arguments make them hardly distinguishable from a tradi-tional variety of conceptual analysis, which is neither a priori nor dependent on intuitions; §2 deals with the “empirical” character of RPT, presenting some objections to its methodological assumptions and the ambitious project of providing a unifying account of the profoundly different facets of the process of proof in USA legal systems without relying on a sufficiently wide array of sociological and empirical data and without specifying the bridge principles governing the rela-tions between the various domains of inquiry.