Understanding Legal Objectivity And Scientific Evidence

Charles Anyama Kalisto, Marwadi University, Rajkot City-Gujarat state

ABSTRACT

The conception of legal objectivity and scientific evidence are continuously in conflict with one another. Legal objectivity relies greatly in establishing the very metaphysical and epistemological connotations of facts in place. Whereas scientific evidence and objectivity is considered relevant only when it serves certain specific values that are derived from them. Putnam and Williams argued in 1978 that scientific objectivism is valid only when there is a specific purpose or values the thesis serves to the people around. This paper is strictly purposed to offer an understanding of the conceptions of legal objectivity vis a vis scientific evidence altogether. It also attempts to relate this topic to its coherent courses in the same domain which includes subjectivism, minimal objectivism, strong objectivism and modest objectivism altogether. A lot more emphasis shall be placed to understanding the functions and roles objectivity as a whole play in solving legal disputes as well as offering scientific experiences.

Keywords: Objectivity, Law, Science, evidence, metaphysics, epistemology.