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Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law
Springer 2005; US$ 139.99Use 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, and even if they cannot all be solved in any single monograph. This book provides a survey of the leading problems, and oultines how future research using... more...
Media Argumentation
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 26.00Presents a new and systematic way of thinking about the influence of mass media in our lives. more...
Witness Testimony Evidence
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 27.00Walton provides an introduction to argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony. more...
Character Evidence
Springer 2006; US$ 129.99Looks at evidence for character judgments, answering questions about how judgments are supported or refuted by verifiable evidence. This book uses a methodology derived from work on models of reasoning in argumentation theory and artificial intelligence. It aims to show how judgments should be based on sound reasoning, in order to avoid errors. more...
Informal Logic
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 26.00Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. more...
Relevance in Argumentation
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 52.95In Relevance in Argumentation, author Douglas Walton presents a new method for critically evaluating arguments for relevance. This method enables a critic to judge whether a move can be said to be relevant or irrelevant, and is based on case studies of argumentation in which an argument, or part of an argument, has been criticized as irrelevant.... more...
Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a structured conversation between rational agents. For example, in multi-agent systems, an electronic agent searches around the internet, and collects certain kinds of information by asking questions to... more...
Informal Fallacies
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 173.00The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors, standards, or procedures should be adopted or appealed... more...
Topical Relevance in Argumentation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1982; US$ 98.00It is a longstanding if not altogether coherent tradition of logic and rhetorical studies that an argument can be incorrect or fallacious in virtue of some proposition in it being ?irrelevant?. This monograph clarifies that tradition. Non-classical propositional calculi, including relevance logics and relatedness logics, are juxtaposed against conversational... more...
Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, and ethical arguments are analyzed. more...
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