Peter Tillers

Webs of Things in the Mind: A New Science of Evidence

This review essay describes a new science, a science that explains how human actors can use an orderly procedure to explore and develop their judgments about the multiple and interrelated inferences that may emerge out of collections of evidence.

Bayes Wars Redivivus - An Exchange

An electronic exchange among 10 evidence scholars that began with a discussion of the restyled Federal Rules and grew into a significant restatement of debates in evidentiary scholarship over the last 50 years, touching on relevance, probative value, inference, Bayesianism and the foundations of evidence, with an introduction by Michael Risinger.

Intellectual History, Probability, and the Law of Evidence

This review essay discusses the relationship between the intellectual history of the reasonable doubt standard and the question of current function of the reasonable doubt standard.