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Epistemic Forensics

LG203
Module 3: Forensic Scepticism Versus Hyper-Scepticism
3 Lessons

Systematically interrogating digital media without falling into epistemic nihilism, where every unfavourable recording is dismissed as fake.

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Forensic Scepticism Versus Hyper-Scepticism

1

Building a Systematic Interrogation Framework

You will understand how to construct a rigorous, structured method for examining digital media evidence that avoids both naive acceptance and reflexive dismissal.

25 min
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2

Epistemic Nihilism and the Danger of Dismissing All Evidence as Fake

You will understand how the fear of synthetic media can trigger wholesale rejection of digital evidence, why this response is epistemically indefensible in litigation, and how to distinguish principled scepticism from defensive dismissal.

25 min
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3

Calibrated Confidence: Weighing Probability Rather Than Certainty

You will understand how to assign defensible confidence levels to digital evidence by reasoning through likelihood, not binary authenticity, and how to communicate those judgements persuasively in legal proceedings.

25 min
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Critical Questions