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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Автор: Walton, Douglas N.
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2008.
Онлайн доступ:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=214427
Зміст:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Witness testimony as argumentation
  • 2. Plausible reasoning in legal argumentation
  • 3. Scripts, stories, and anchored narratives
  • 4. Computational dialectics
  • 5. Witness examination as peirastic dialogue
  • 6. A dialectical model of the fair trial
  • 7. Supporting and attacking witness testimony.