Jurisprudence: A Formal Science

Moral Grammar and Intuitive Jurisprudence: A Formal Model of Unconscious Moral and Legal Knowledge

Could a computer be programmed to make moral judgments about cases of intentional harm and unreasonable risk that match those judgments people already make intuitively? If the human moral sense is an unconscious computational mechanism of some sort, as many cognitive scientists have suggested, then the answer should be yes. So too if the search for reflective equilibrium is a sound enterprise, ...

FSCP: A Platform for Crowdsourcing Formal Science

We present the Formal Science Crowdsourcing Platform (FSCP). FSCP represents claims as interpreted predicate logic formulas. FSCP-based crowdsourcing systems focus a crowd of scholars on examining a family of claims to separate the true claims from false ones. Scholars examine a claim through participating in a substantiation game. Substantiation games are built on top of Hintikka’s Game Theore...

Formal Modeling in Political Science

Applications of game theory—and an alternative strategic theory called “theory of moves”—as well as social-choice theory to a wide variety of strategic situations, principally but not exclusively in politics, will be examined. Uses of strategy in voting in committees and elections, in political campaigns, in the defense and deterrence policies of nations, and in bargaining and coalition-buildin...

Jurisprudence for a Free Society

Medical Jurisprudence for India

That India forms a fruitful field for medicolegal observations is somewhat a trite saying to those who know the country, and is obviously proved by the rich storehouses of facts accumulated in the numerous series of reports, papers, and text-books dealing with Medical Jurisprudence in India. In France the names of Orfila and Tardieu have been held in great repute. Chevers in India corresponds t...