The Dynamics of Judicial Proof
Subtitle: Computation, Logic, and Common Sense
By: edited by Marilyn MacCrimmon, Peter Tillers
Contributors: Tillers, Peter
Series: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing -- 94; Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing -- 94
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD; Imprint: Physica
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9783662003237; 9783790817928
Subjects: Law; Artificial intelligence
Description: Fact finding in judicial proceedings is a dynamic process. This collection of papers considers whether computational methods or other formal logical methods developed in disciplines such as artificial intelligence, decision theory, and probability theory can facilitate the study and management of dynamic evidentiary and inferential processes in litigation. The papers gathered here have several epicenters, including (i) the dynamics of judicial proof, (ii) the relationship between artificial intelligence or formal analysis and "common sense," (iii) the logic of factual inference, including (a) the relationship between causality and inference and (b) the relationship between language and factual inference, (iv) the logic of discovery, including the role of abduction and serendipity in the process of investigation and proof of factual matters, and (v) the relationship between decision and inference.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part 1: Common Sense Reasoning and Rough Logic; title: Part 2: Fuzzy and Rough Logic; title: Part 3: The Structure of Factual Inference in Judicial Settings; title: Part 4: Dynamic Inference and Choice in Dynamic Environments; title: Part 5: Abductive Inference; title: Part 6: From Theory to Practice: "Intelligent" Procedures for Drawing Inferences in Static and Dynamic Legal Environments; title: Part 7: Judicial Proof and Economic Rationality; title: Part 8: Causality.