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Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument

A Study of Defeasible Reasoning in Law

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Henry Prakken

    1. Department of Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 32)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Role of Logic in Legal Reasoning

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 15-31

  4. The Need for New Logical Tools

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 33-65

  5. Logics for Nonmonotonic Reasoning

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 67-100

  6. Representing Explicit Exceptions

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 101-139

  7. Preferring the Most Specific Argument

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 141-178

  8. Reasoning with Inconsistent Information

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 179-201

  9. Reasoning about Priority Relations

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 203-218

  10. Systems for Defeasible Argumentation

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 219-247

  11. Using the Argumentation System

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 249-274

  12. Conclusion

    • Henry Prakken
    Pages 275-285

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 287-314
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About this book

This book is a revised and extended version of my PhD Thesis 'Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument', which I defended on 14 January 1993 at the Free University Amsterdam. The first five chapters of the thesis have remained almost completely unchanged but the other chapters have undergone considerable revision and expansion. Most importantly, I have replaced the formal argument-based system of the old Chapters 6, 7 and 8 with a revised and extended system, whieh I have developed during the last three years in collaboration with Giovanni Sartor. Apart from some technical improvements, the main additions to the old system are the enriehment of its language with a nonprovability operator, and the ability to formalise reasoning about preference criteria. Moreover, the new system has a very intuitive dialectieal form, as opposed to the rather unintuitive fixed-point appearance of the old system. Another important revision is the split of the old Chapter 9 into two new chapters. The oldSection 9. 1 on related research has been updated and expanded into a whole chapter, while the rest of the old chapter is now in revised form in Chapter 10. This chapter also contains two new contributions, a detailed discussion of Gordon's Pleadings Game, and a general description of a multi-Iayered overall view on the structure of argu­ mentation, comprising a logieal, dialectical, procedural and strategie layer. Finally, in the revised conclusion I have paid more attention to the relevance of my investigations for legal philosophy and argumentation theory.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Henry Prakken

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument

  • Book Subtitle: A Study of Defeasible Reasoning in Law

  • Authors: Henry Prakken

  • Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8975-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-4776-7Published: 31 October 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4928-5Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-015-8975-8Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-4395

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 314

  • Topics: Philosophy of Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Artificial Intelligence, Logic

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