Approaches to Legal Rationality

Legal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation. Each of them provides specific insights into highly complex phenomena. Different disciplines, but also different traditions in disciplines (e.g. analytical and continental traditions in philosophy) find here a rare occasion to meet. The present book contains contributions, both historical and thematic, from leading researchers in several of the most important approaches to legal rationality. One of the main issues is the relation between logic and law: the way logic is actually used in law, but also the way logic can make law explicit. An outstanding group of philosophers, logicians and jurists try to meet this issue. The book is more than a collection of papers. However different their respective conceptual tools may be, the authors share a common conception: legal argumentation is a specific argumentation context.

List of contents

Introduction.- Abstracts.- Part I The Specificity of Legal Reasoning.- Part II Legal Reasoning and Public Reason.- Part III Logic and Law.- Part IV New Formal Approaches to Legal Reasoning .- Part V Logic in the Law.

Summary

Legal theory, political sciences, sociology, philosophy, logic, artificial intelligence: there are many approaches to legal argumentation. Each of them provides specific insights into highly complex phenomena. Different disciplines, but also different traditions in disciplines (e.g. analytical and continental traditions in philosophy) find here a rare occasion to meet. The present book contains contributions, both historical and thematic, from leading researchers in several of the most important approaches to legal rationality. One of the main issues is the relation between logic and law: the way logic is actually used in law, but also the way logic can make law explicit. An outstanding group of philosophers, logicians and jurists try to meet this issue. The book is more than a collection of papers. However different their respective conceptual tools may be, the authors share a common conception: legal argumentation is a specific argumentation context.

Product details

• Assisted by: Patric Canivez (Editor), Patrice Canivez (Editor), Dov M. Gabbay (Editor), Shahid Rahman (Editor), Shahid Rahman et al (Editor), Alexandre Thiercelin (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9789400733756
• ISBN: 978-94-0-073375-6
• No. of pages: 422
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 23 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 651 g
• Illustrations: X, 422 p.
• Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science; Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; B, Law, Artificial Intelligence, Logic, Political Science, Philosophy, Political science & theory, History of Philosophy, Law and Criminology, Law—Philosophy, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Philosophy: logic, argumentation theory;legal reasoning;logic and law