On the ontology and epistemology of visual legal evidence: Interview with Jennifer L. Mnookin
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: Sandra Ristovska: What made you interested in cultures of proof and questions about visual evidence?Jennifer Mnookin: What most fundamentally drives my interest is a curiosity about proof and persuasion: their cultural meaning, what we think is convincing, what we think is dispositive, and what we don'tbelieve at all -and why.How do we blend the evidence of our senses, our prior beliefs, our presuppositions, and new information we hear through testimony or otherwise into an aggregation that makes us think we have (or do not have) knowledge and conviction?At the broadest, 30,000-foot level, I am interested in epistemic cultures and their production.On the ontology and epistemology of visual legal evidence: Interview with Jennifer L. Mnookin a group of senior advisors for a President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology report on the use of forensic science in criminal courts.In 2020, Mnookin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.She received her A.B. from
Source: First Monday
Authors: Jennifer L. Mnookin, Sandra Ristovska
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4382989205