Applied Epistemology (Legal Epistemology, Epistemology of Evidence Law)

At present, I am mostly interested in the following questions at the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of (evidence) law:

• What are the key epistemological properties of legal evidence? When is a body of evidence sufficient to convict?

• What's the nature of legal standards of proof? What can count as a reasonable doubt in a court of law?

• What's so special about eyewitness testimony, and what's the role of statistics in a courtroom?

• How can experts contribute to a criminal trial?

• How should we capture the epistemic normativity of evidential reasoning?  

Traditional Epistemology

I am also interested in the following long-standing issues in epistemology:

• What's the relationship between knowledge and luck? Need knowledge be safe or sensitive?

• Can the Gettier problem be solved?

• How do acquire knowledge through testimony?

I have additional interests in general philosophy of science, especially in the structure of scientific explanation, experimental epistemology (especially lay judgements about epistemic justification) and the epistemology of science communication.