Legal Argumentation and Evidence - 9780271021775

Legal Argumentation and EvidenceAuthor(s): Douglas Walton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271021775, 978-0271021775\nSynopsis\nA leading expert in informal logic, Douglas Walton turns his attention in this new book to how reasoning operates in trials and other legal contexts, with special emphasis on the law of evidence. The new model he develops, drawing on methods of argumentation theory that are gaining wide acceptance in computing fields like artificial intelligence, can be used to identify, analyze, and evaluate specific types of legal argument. In contrast with approaches that rely on deductive and inductive logic and rule out many common types of argument as fallacious, Waltons aim is to provide a more expansive view of what can be considered \""reasonable\"" in legal argument when it is construed as a dynamic, rule-governed, and goal-directed conversation. This dialogica.