Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument

A Study of Defeasible Reasoning in Law

AvH. Prakken

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

This book, the expanded and completely revised text of the author's renowned 1993 dissertation, studies the logical aspects of legal reasoning, in order to provide philosophical foundations for legal applications of Artificial Intelligence. It respects that legal reasoning often takes place in a disputational setting, and observes that the law leaves ample room for disagreement, which means that lawyers reason under the possibility of exceptions and with contradictory legal sources, and cannot do without non-deductive reasoning forms, such as analogical reasoning. The study shows that, contrary to what is often said, these features do not escape a logical analysis if recent developments in logic and Artificial Intelligence on so-called non-monotonic reasoning and defeasible argumentation are used, and if logic is regarded as a tool in, rather than as, a model of legal argument. This book is relevant for scholars in legal philosophy, artificial intelligence, logic and argumentation theory, and can also serve as a textbook for graduate courses in AI & Law, non-monotonic reasoning and legal argumentation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-10-28
Mått:160 x 240 x 18 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Law and Philosophy Library
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789048149285

Utforska kategorier

Artificiell intelligens inom Data och IT
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Juridik: metod och teori inom Juridik

Recensioner i media

'The main contribution of Prakken's work is its organization and expression of non-technical ideas. Prakken successfully makes the best possible case for logic as a tool for modeling legal reasoning. He has written the best, most technically detailed, and fairest survey of the formal work on argument and defeasible reasoning.' Ronald P. Loui, Artificial Intelligence and Law, 3 (1995) '... Prakken has written the best current text with which the interested logician can quickly study the main surviving applicable ideas of non-monotonic reasoning and can glimpse the themes that are shaping current research in defeasible reasoning.' The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 64:4 (1999)

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction.- 2 The Role of Logic in Legal Reasoning.- 3 The Need for New Logical Tools.- 4 Logics for Nonmonotonic Reasoning.- 5 Representing Explicit Exceptions.- 6 Preferring the Most Specific Argument.- 7 Reasoning with Inconsistent Information.- 8 Reasoning about Priority Relations.- 9 Systems for Defeasible Argumentation.- 10 Using the Argumentation System.- 11 Conclusion.- A Notations, Orderings and Glossary.- A1 General Symbols and Notations.- A2 Ordering Relations.- A3 Notions of the Argumentation System of Chapters 6–8.- A4 Glossary.- References.