Witness Testimony Evidence - Argumentation and the Law

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Walton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg. An internationally recognised scholar of argumentation theory and logic, he is the author of many books, most recently Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law and Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation. Dr. Walton's research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Isaak Walton Killum Memorial Foundation. Klappentext Walton provides an introduction to argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony. Zusammenfassung Recent work in artificial intelligence has increasingly turned to argumentation as a rich! interdisciplinary area of research. In this book! Douglas Walton provides an introduction to basic concepts! tools! and methods in argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Witness testimony as argumentation; 2. Plausible reasoning in legal argumentation; 3. Scripts, stories, and anchored narratives; 4. Computational dialectics; 5. Witness examination as peirastic dialogue; 6. A dialectical model of the fair trial; 7. Supporting and attacking witness testimony.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Walton, Douglas (University of Windsor Walton, Douglas N. Walton, Walton Douglas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521881432
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88143-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Courts, LAW / Trial Practice, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law