Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Series: | Law and Philosophy Library,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16148-8 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.