Argumentation Methods For Artificial Intelligence And Law

E-Book Overview

Use of argumentation methods applied to legal reasoning is a relatively new field of study. Many vitally important problems of legal reasoning can be profitably studied in light of these new methods, even if they cannot all be solved in any single monograph. This book provides a survey of the leading problems, and outlines how future research using argumentation-based methods show great promise of leading to useful solutions. The problems studied include not only those of argument evaluation and argument invention, but also analysis of specific kinds of evidence commonly used in law, like witness testimony, circumstantial evidence, forensic evidence and character evidence. New tools for analyzing these kinds of evidence are introduced, like argument diagramming, abductive reasoning, an analysis of conditional relevance and a new dialectical model of explanation.

E-Book Content

Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law Douglas Walton Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law With 28 Figures 12 Professor Dr. Douglas Walton University of Winnipeg Department of Philosophy Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9 Canada [email protected] ISBN-10 ISBN-13 3-540-25187-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-25187-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2005927861 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions o

Argumentation Methods For Artificial Intelligence And Law

E-Book Overview

E-Book Content

Practical Criminal Investigations In Correctional Facilities
Authors: William R. Bell 117 0