Editors:
- Offers useful tools that can be applied in the evaluation of legal arguments
- Includes important recent advances on various argument types and fallacies
- First book on various argument types and fallacies to focus on legal argumentation
- Includes contributions written by top international scholars in legal theory (Frederick Schauer, Pierluigi Chiassoni, Jose Juan Moreso, Giovanni Tuzet and others)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 112)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Argument Types or Fallacies?
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Front Matter
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Argument Types and Legal Interpretation
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides theoretical tools for evaluating the soundness of arguments in the context of legal argumentation. It deals with a number of general argument types and their particular use in legal argumentation. It provides detailed analyses of argument from authority, argument ad hominem, argument from ignorance, slippery slope argument and other general argument types. Each of these argument types can be used to construct arguments that are sound as well as arguments that are unsound. To evaluate an argument correctly one must be able to distinguish the sound instances of a certain argument type from its unsound instances. This book promotes the development of theoretical tools for this task.
Keywords
- Absence of Evidence
- Ad Hominem Fallacies
- Anti-Theoretical Fallacy
- Argument Types
- Authority and the Conversion of Fallacious Arguments
- Dworkin’s Answer to Posner’s Analysis of Bush v. Gore
- Epistemic Credibility
- Fallacies in Legal Argumentation
- Frames of Interpretation
- Frames of Interpretation
- Generality and the Conversion of Fallacious Arguments
- Imprecise Expressions in Argumentation
- Legal Argumentation
- Slippery Slope Arguments
- Statutory Expression and Proportionality
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Thomas Bustamante
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Faculty of Law, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Christian Dahlman
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation
Editors: Thomas Bustamante, Christian Dahlman
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16148-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16147-1Published: 20 April 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35487-3Published: 05 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16148-8Published: 07 April 2015
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 222
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law