Overview
- Provides a hybrid theory of legal reasoning for evidential problems
- Combines in a novel way, arguments with stories
- Makes a central contribution to the field of evidence law
- Contributes significantly to the theory of legal reasoning
Part of the book series: Law and Philosophy Library (LAPS, volume 92)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Argumentation
- Artificial Evidence and Law
- Bank Fraud
- Bayesian Belief Networks
- Bennett
- Cannabis-growing Operation
- Cause of Death
- Coherence of Stories
- Comparing the Alternatives
- Contradiction
- Criminal Evidence
- Defeasible Logic
- Defeating Arguments
- Evidence
- Evidence (Law)
- Evidence Theorists
- Evidential Arguments
- Evidential Reasoning
- Evidential Support
- Explaining the Evidence
- Explanations
- Facta Explananda
- Facta Probanda
- Feldman
- Hastie
- Hybrid
- Hybrid Theory
- Initial Evaluation
- Josephson
- Judicial Proof
- Justification
- Kadane
- Keppens
- Law
- Leo de Jager
- Logic
- Murder Weapon
- Murder in Anjum
- Pennington
- Police Investigation
- Process of Proof
- Protocol
- Rational Theories
- Reasoning
- Sacco and Vanzetti Case
- Schum
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Stories
- Support System
- Thagard
- Trial
- Wigmore
- Wigmorean Analysis
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arguments, Stories and Criminal Evidence
Book Subtitle: A Formal Hybrid Theory
Authors: Floris J. Bex
Series Title: Law and Philosophy Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0140-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0139-7Published: 23 February 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0140-3Published: 15 February 2011
Series ISSN: 1572-4395
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0315
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 292
Number of Illustrations: 109 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Law and Psychology, Philosophy of Law