Argument evaluation and evidence
Douglas N. Walton (Author)
This monograph poses a series of key problems of evidential reasoning and argumentation. It then offers solutions achieved by applying recently developed computational models of argumentation made available in artificial intelligence. Each problem is posed in such a way that the solution is easily understood. The book progresses from confronting these problems and offering solutions to them, building a useful general method for evaluating arguments along the way. It provides a hands-on survey explaining to the reader how to use current argumentation methods and concepts that are increasingly being implemented in more precise ways for the application of software tools in computational argumentation systems. It shows how the use of these tools and methods requires a new approach to the concepts of knowledge and explanation suitable for diverse settings, such as issues of public safety and health, debate, legal argumentation, forensic evidence, science education, and the use of expert opinion evidence in personal and public deliberations.-- Provided by Publisher
Law, governance and technology series, v. 23, volume 23
xi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9783319196251, 3319196251
919080389
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction to Argument and Explanation
Chapter 2: Inference to the Best Explanation
Chapter 3: A Dialogue System for Evaluating Explanations
Chapter 4: Evaluating Expert Opinion Evidence
Chapter 5: Attribution of a Painting to Leonardo da Vinci
Chapter 6: Argument from Correlation to Causation
Chapter 7: Knowledge and Inquiry
Chapter 8: Evidence and Argument Evaluation.- index