Episode 4: Evidential Reasoning & Evidence Law (ft. Giovanni Tuzet)

The guest for this fourth episode of the HAPL podcast is Giovanni Tuzet, currently Full Professor of Philosophy of Law at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy). In the first part of this interview with Julieta Rabanos and Bojan Spaić, Tuzet talks about his academic path to the present and introduces the topic of evidential reasoning, starting from the most general question about legal reasoning and moving towards evidential reasoning and evidence law. He analyses the similarities and differences between evidential reasoning and other domains of factual reasoning, and explains different criteria for admissible evidence in law and those other domains. In the second part of the interview, Tuzet discusses his approach to the relation of truth and evidence (developed in his recent book “La prova ragionata”) and its differences with other approaches. The debate goes on to touch admissibility of evidence, evaluation criteria, and standards of proof, evidence and inference, probabilism and control of the inferences, artificial intelligence and evidential reasoning, and much more. (00:00:00) HAPL Intro (00:00:18) Introduction – Welcome to Giovanni Tuzet & Academic Genealogy (00:05:52) A general account of legal reasoning (00:10:47) Reasoning & Argumentation: public and private aspects of reasoning (00:13:00) Legal Reasoning & Inferentialism (00:19:06) Evidential Reasoning in Law and in Other Domains (00:27:25) ER: Admissibility of Evidence in Law – general concept (00:33:32) ER: Truth and Evidence in “La prova ragionata” (Giuffre, 2023) (00:39:54) ER: Admissibility of Evidence in Law – criteria of admissibility and exclusion (00:46:37) ER: Evidence & Inference (ft. Sherlock Holmes) (01:01:53) ER: Probabilism & Control of the results of ER (01:13:58) ER & Artificial Intelligence – limits and possibilities (01:20:44) ER: Standards of Proof (01:30:23) ER & Artificial Intelligence – would an AI have convicted OJ Simpson? (01:35:06) Interview end – Farewell to Giovanni Tuzet (01:36:58) HAPL Outro [This episode was hosted by Julieta Rabanos and Bojan Spaić; edited by Bojan Spaić; uploaded and formatted by Julieta Rabanos]