Witness testimony evidence : argumentation, artificial intelligence, and law /
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 argumentati...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2008.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=214427 |
| Sumari: | 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. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511367762 0511367767 0511367171 9780511367175 9780511619533 0511619537 1281146404 9781281146403 0521881439 0521707706 9780521881432 9780521707701 |