Publication

2007-11-19 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

96,000 words, Guess

Page Count

384 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

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Classifications

  • LCCK213.W355 2008

Description

"Recent work in artificial intelligence has increasingly turned to argumentation as a rich, interdisciplinary area of research that can provide new methods related to evidence and reasoning in the area of law. 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. He shows how witness testimony is by its nature inherently fallible and sometimes subject to disastrous failures. At the same time such testimony can provide evidence that is not only necessary but inherently reasonable for logically guiding legal experts to accept or reject a claim. Walton shows how to overcome the traditional disdain for witness testimony as a type of evidence shown by logical positivists, and the views of trial sceptics who doubt that trial rules deal with witness testimony in a way that yields a rational decision-making process."--Publisher's website.

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  • Witness Testimony EvidencePaperbackCambridge University Press2007-11-19

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