Presumptions and Burdens of Proof: An Anthology of Argumentation and the Law

An anthology of the most important historical sources, classical and modern, on the subjects of presumptions and burdens of proof

About the author

Hans V. Hansen is professor and head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Windsor in Ontario. He is coeditor of Fallacies: Classical and Contemporary Readings and is coeditor of the journal Argumentation.

Fred J. Kauffeld (1942-2017) was professor and chair of the Department of Communication Arts at Edgewood College and coeditor of Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric.

James B. Freeman is professor of philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Argument Structure: Representation and Theory, Acceptable Premises: An Epistemic Approach to an Informal Logic Problem, Thinking Logically: Basic Concepts for Reasoning, and Dialectics and the Macrostructure of Arguments.

Lilian Bermejo-Luque is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Granada. She is the author of Giving Reasons: A Linguistic-Pragmatic Approach to Argumentation Theory.

Summary

In the last fifty years, the study of argumentation has become one of the most exciting intellectual crossroads in the modern academy. Two of the most central concepts of argumentation theory are presumptions and burdens of proof. This book is an an anthology of the most important historical sources on presumptions and burdens of proof.

Product details

• Assisted by: James B. Freeman (Editor), Hans Vilhelm Hansen (Editor), Fred J. Kauffeld (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780817320171
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2017-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Series: Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities; Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanit; Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Logik, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, LAW / Communications, Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric