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. He was the coeditor of Texts in Context: Critical Dialogues on Significant Episodes in American Political Rhetoric.

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: Lilian Bermejo-Luque (Editor), James B Freeman (Editor), James B. Freeman (Editor), Hans Vilhelm Hansen (Editor), Fred J Kauffeld (Editor), Fred J. Kauffeld (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780817320171
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-2017-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 231 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 667 g
• Illustrations: 2 black & white figures
• 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