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Witness testimony evidence

By Douglas Walton

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521881439, 9780521881432, 9780511367762
LCC
K213 .W355 2008
Open Library ID
OL10438360M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2125464 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
385\385
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

Recent work in artificial intelligence has increasingly turned to argumentation asa rich interdisciplinary area of research that can provide new methods related toevidence and reasoning in the area of law. In this book, DouglasWalton providesan introduction to basic concepts, tools, and methods in argumentation theoryand artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witnesstestimony. He shows how witness testimony is by its nature inherently fallibleand sometimes subject to disastrous failures. At the same time, if used properly,such testimony can provide evidence that it is not only necessary but inherentlyreasonable for logically guided legal experts to accept or reject a claim. Waltonshows how to overcome the traditional disdain for witness testimony as a typeof evidence shown by logical positivists and the views of trial skeptics who doubtthat trial rules deal with witness testimony in a way that yields a rational decisionmakingprocess. This book will be of interest to those who work in the areas ofanalytical philosophy, informal logic, artificial intelligence, and law.

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