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Philosophy General

Handbook of Legal Reasoning and Argumentation

by (author) Giorgio Bongiovanni

edited by Gerald Postema, Antonino Rotolo, Giovanni Sartor, Chiara Valentini & Douglas Walton

Publisher
Springer/Sci-Tech/Trade
Initial publish date
Jul 2018
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9789048194513
    Publish Date
    Jul 2018
    List Price
    $554.95

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This handbook addresses legal reasoning and argumentation from a logical, philosophical and legal perspective. The main forms of legal reasoning and argumentation are covered in an exhaustive and critical fashion, and are analysed in connection with more general types (and problems) of reasoning. Accordingly, the subject matter of the handbook divides in three parts. The first one introduces and discusses the basic concepts of practical reasoning. The second one discusses the general structures and procedures of reasoning and argumentation that are relevant to legal discourse. The third one looks at their instantiations and developments of these aspects of argumentation as they are put to work in the law, in different areas and applications of legal reasoning.

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Douglas N. Walton is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg. He has published two books with Penn State Press, The Place of Emotion in Argument (1992) and Arguments from Ignorance (1995). Other recent books of his include Slippery Slope Arguments (1992) and Plausible Arguments in Everyday Conversation (1992).

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