Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bustamante, Thomas (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Dahlman, Christian (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Σειρά: Law and Philosophy Library, 112
• Θέματα: Law.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.

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, argum...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• about the authors
• I. Argument Types or Fallacies?
• 1. Appeal to Expert Testimony – A Bayesian Approach; Christian Dahlman and  Lena Wahlberg
• 2. Ad Hominem Fallacies and Epistemic Credibility; Audrey Yap
• 3. On the Absence of Evidence; Giovanni Tuzet
• 4. The Uses of Slippery Slope Argument; Jose Juan Moreso
• 5. Institutional constraints of topical strategic maneuvering in legal argumentation. The case of ‘insulting’;  Harm Kloosterhuis
• 6. One-Sided Argumentation in the Defense of Marriage Act; Janice Schuetz
• II. Argument Types and Legal Interpretation
• 7. Anti-Theoretical Claims about Legal Interpretation: The Argument behind the Fallacy; Thomas Bustamante
• 8. Frames of Interpretations and the Container-Retrieval View: Reflections on a Theoretical Contest;  Pierluigi Chiassoni
• 9. Argument Structures in Legal Interpretation: Balancing and Thresholds; Michał Araszkiewicz
• 10. An Analysis of some Juristic Techniques for Handling Systematic Defects in the Law; Giovanni Battista Ratti
• 11. Argumentation from reasonableness in the justification of judicial decisions;  Eveline Feteris
• 12. Legal Argumentation and Theories of Adjudication in the U.S. Legal Tradition: Between Cass Sunstein’s Minimalism, Richard Posner’s Pragmatism and Ronald Dworkin’s Advocacy of Integrity; Bernardo Gonçalves Fernandes.- Index.