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Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation and the Law
Douglas Walton
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Description for Witness Testimony Evidence: Argumentation and the Law
paperback. Walton provides an introduction to argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony. Num Pages: 384 pages, 12 tables. BIC Classification: LAB; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 512.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521707701
SKU
V9780521707701
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Ref
99-16
About Douglas Walton
Douglas Walton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg. An internationally recognised scholar of argumentation theory and logic, he is the author of many books, most recently Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law and Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation. Dr. Walton's research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Isaak Walton ... Read more
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