Resumen de Strong, weak, or apparent naturalization? relative plausibility theory and conceptual analysis

Nicola Muffato

• The paper questions the naturalized epistemological framework for Allen’s relative plau-sibility theory (RPT). It is divided into two main sections: §1 is devoted to show that the weak/modest naturalism of Allen’s central arguments make them hardly distinguishable from a tradi-tional variety of conceptual analysis, which is neither a priori nor dependent on intuitions; §2 deals with the “empirical” character of RPT, presenting some objections to its methodological assumptions and the ambitious project of providing a unifying account of the profoundly different facets of the process of proof in USA legal systems without relying on a sufficiently wide array of sociological and empirical data and without specifying the bridge principles governing the rela-tions between the various domains of inquiry.