How Will I Know? An Epistemology of Lawyering

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dc.contributor.advisorHutchinson, Allan C.
dc.contributor.authorTucsa, Emanuel Raul
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-15T15:34:10Z
dc.date.available2021-11-15T15:34:10Z
dc.date.copyright2021-08
dc.date.issued2021-11-15
dc.date.updated2021-11-15T15:34:10Z
dc.degree.disciplineLaw
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractWhat does anyone know after a trial, after a witness gives testimony, or even after seeking the counsel of a lawyer? Hopefully, the answer to these questions has something to do with the truth. Legal systems claim to have truth-seeking functions. Lawyers have specific roles in the procedures by which legal systems seek the truth and these roles are informed by the norms of legal practice. Yet, lawyers' relationship to truth and knowledge remains underexplored in the philosophy of lawyering. I argue that the philosophy of lawyering needs to develop the epistemic branch of inquiry. The epistemic study of the legal profession offers both enrichment of this applied field of philosophy itself and the opportunity for the philosophy of lawyering to link up with a nexus of emerging scholarship about cognition in legal systems and legal services especially metacognition in legal pedagogy and behavioural legal ethics (which explores the psychology of lawyers). Advancing an epistemic approach to the philosophy of lawyering, I study the way in which the lawyer is involved in the adversarial systems truth-seeking function. My theory of lawyering is informed by recent scholarship in social epistemology and virtue epistemology. I propose a normative epistemology of lawyering, meaning specifically that my approach speaks to the professional character development of the lawyer. In the adversarial system of adjudication, lawyers can support the truth-seeking function of the system by developing the intellectual virtues of an epistemic partisan. I put my proposal to the test against Monroe Freedmans Client Perjury Trilemma, reaching new conclusions about the responses to the famous problem. Ultimately, I call for a commitment to professional character formation in service of the legal systems search for truth.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38736
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectEpistemology
dc.subject.keywordsAdversarial system of adjudication
dc.subject.keywordsAdversarial system
dc.subject.keywordsAdversarial
dc.subject.keywordsAlternative model of lawyering
dc.subject.keywordsAlvin Goldman
dc.subject.keywordsAmerican Bar Association
dc.subject.keywordsABA
dc.subject.keywordsAristotelian
dc.subject.keywordsAristotle
dc.subject.keywordsBehavioural legal ethics
dc.subject.keywordsCandid
dc.subject.keywordsCandour
dc.subject.keywordsCharacter
dc.subject.keywordsClient perjury
dc.subject.keywordsCognition
dc.subject.keywordsCognizer
dc.subject.keywordsCompetence
dc.subject.keywordsConfidential
dc.subject.keywordsConfidentiality
dc.subject.keywordsdevelopment
dc.subject.keywordsDisclosure
dc.subject.keywordsDissuasion
dc.subject.keywordsDominant model of lawyering
dc.subject.keywordsEducation
dc.subject.keywordsEpistemic partisanship
dc.subject.keywordsEpistemic virtue
dc.subject.keywordsEpistemic
dc.subject.keywordsEpistemological
dc.subject.keywordsEpistemology
dc.subject.keywordsEthical
dc.subject.keywordsEthics
dc.subject.keywordsFederation of Law Societies of Canada
dc.subject.keywordsFLSC
dc.subject.keywordsIntellectual virtue
dc.subject.keywordsIntellectual
dc.subject.keywordsJason Baehr
dc.subject.keywordsJurisprudence
dc.subject.keywordsKnower
dc.subject.keywordsKnowledge
dc.subject.keywordsLaw Society of Ontario
dc.subject.keywordsLSO
dc.subject.keywordsLaw society
dc.subject.keywordsLaw
dc.subject.keywordsLawyer
dc.subject.keywordsLawyering
dc.subject.keywordsLegal education
dc.subject.keywordsLegal epistemology
dc.subject.keywordsLegal ethics
dc.subject.keywordsLegal philosophy
dc.subject.keywordsLegal positivism
dc.subject.keywordsLegal psychology
dc.subject.keywordsLegal
dc.subject.keywordsLon Fuller
dc.subject.keywordsMetacognition
dc.subject.keywordsMetacognitive planning
dc.subject.keywordsMidas Theory
dc.subject.keywordsModels of lawyering
dc.subject.keywordsMonroe Freedman
dc.subject.keywordsMoral
dc.subject.keywordsMorality
dc.subject.keywordsNarrative testimony
dc.subject.keywordsNatural law
dc.subject.keywordsPartisan
dc.subject.keywordsPartisanship
dc.subject.keywordsPedagogy
dc.subject.keywordsperjurious
dc.subject.keywordsPerjury
dc.subject.keywordsPhilosophy of law
dc.subject.keywordsPhilosophy
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical philosophy
dc.subject.keywordsProcedural naturalism
dc.subject.keywordsProfessional regulation
dc.subject.keywordsProfessionalism
dc.subject.keywordsReliabilism
dc.subject.keywordsReliabilist
dc.subject.keywordsResponsibilism
dc.subject.keywordsResponsibilist
dc.subject.keywordsResponsibility
dc.subject.keywordsRole-differentiated
dc.subject.keywordsRole-differentiation
dc.subject.keywordsSelective ignorance
dc.subject.keywordsSocial epistemology
dc.subject.keywordsThinker
dc.subject.keywordsThinking
dc.subject.keywordsTraditional model of lawyering
dc.subject.keywordsTrilemma
dc.subject.keywordsTrue
dc.subject.keywordsTruth
dc.subject.keywordsVice
dc.subject.keywordsVicious
dc.subject.keywordsVirtue epistemology
dc.subject.keywordsVirtue theory
dc.subject.keywordsVirtue
dc.subject.keywordsVirtuous
dc.subject.keywordsVolition
dc.subject.keywordsWithdrawal
dc.titleHow Will I Know? An Epistemology of Lawyering
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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