Diana Raffman, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

Vagueness and legal indeterminacy
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$74,000
Vagueness, epistemology and the law
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
$25,627
Vagueness without paradox
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$39,650

All 3 grants and awards

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Vagueness and legal indeterminacy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Raffman, Diana

Keywords: philosophy of law; philosophy of language; vagueness; legal indeterminacy; judicial discretion; borderline cases; rule of law; arbitrariness; hard cases

$74,000

Vagueness, epistemology and the law

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010

Principal investigators: Raffman, Diana

Keywords: vagueness; epistemology; legal theory; contextualism; borderline cases; indeterminacy; judicial discretion

$25,627

Vagueness without paradox

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Raffman, Diana

Keywords: philosophy of language; vagueness; philosophy of mind; psycholinguistics

$39,650

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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