Merkel III: From Committed Pragmatist to ‘Conviction Leader’?

Post-Conviction DNA Testing and Wrongful Conviction

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Pragmatist and Non-pragmatist Knowledge Practices in American Law

Visual Conviction

The state of mind of a fallible, rational, self-conscious, visual observer is considered with regard to the questions: what distinguishes visual knowledge from other kinds of knowledge, and what is the strongest warrant for belief that such an observer can hold? The answer given to the first question is that visual knowledge is any kind of knowledge that the observer could hold in a two-way, sp...

DSM-III diagnoses and offenses in committed female juvenile delinquents.

The relationship between juvenile delinquency and psychiatric disorders remains poorly understood. However, it is becoming more apparent that the spectrum of psychiatric illness present in juvenile delinquents is broader than once believed. Fifteen female juvenile delinquents committed to a residential treatment program were assessed for DSM-III diagnoses, using a structured diagnostic intervie...

The Pragmatist Aesthetics of

Although William James wrote no philosophical treatise on aesthetics, he can be seen as an important source for pragmatist aesthetics. This paper reconstructs James’s aesthetic views from his diverse writings that demonstrate a keen regard for the arts and for the central, pervasive importance of the aesthetic dimension of experience, a dimension he saw as closely linked to the rational and pra...