Materials for Philosophy 848, Fall 2014
Syllabus, notes, etc
Readings
- V. Aleven and K. Ashley, 1997, Evaluating a learning environment for case-based argumentation skills
- K. Ashley, 1989, Toward a computational theory of arguing with precedents: accomodating multiple interpretations of cases
- K. Ashley, 1989, Modeling Legal Argument, Chapters 2 and 3
- L. Alexander, 1989, Constrained by precedent
- T. Bench-Capon, 2001, Theory based explanation of case law domains
- T. Bench-Capon, 2002, The missing link revisited: the role of teleology in representing legal argument
- D. Berman and C. Hafner, 1993, Representing teleological structure in case-based legal reasoning: the missing link
- F. Bex, P. van Koppen, H. Prakken, and B. Verheij, 2010, A hybrid formal theory of arguments, stories, and criminal evidence
- F. Bex, 2014, Toward an integrated theory of causal scenarios and evidential arguments
- K. Branting, 1991, Reasoning with portions of precedents
- K. Branting, 1993, A reduction-graph model of ratio decidendi
- S. Brewer, 1996, Exemplary reasoning: semantics, pragmatics, and the rational force of legal argument by analogy
- S. Burton, 1958, Law and Legal Reasoning, Chapter 2
- B. Chapman, 2013, Incommensurability, proportionality, and defeasibility
- P. Dung, 1995, On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and n-person games
- R. Dworkin, 1967, The model of rules I
- R. Dworkin, 1975, Hard cases
- C. Finkelstein, 2000, When the rule swallows the exception
- A. Goodhart, 1930, Determining the ratio decidendi of a cse
- J. Hage, 2001, Formalizing legal coherence
- J. Hage, 2003, Law and defeasibility
- R. Holton, 2011, Modeling legal rules
- H. L. A. Hart, 1948, The ascription of responsibility and rights
- H. L. A. Hart, 1958, Positivism and the separation of law and morals
- J. Horty, 2011, The result model of precedent
- J. Horty, 2011, Rules and reasons in the theory of precedent
- J. Horty, 2012, Reasons as Defaults (manuscript, so you don't have to buy the book)
- J. Horty, 2013, Common law reasoning
- A. Iltis, 2000, Bioethics as methological case resolution: specification, specified principlism, and casuistry
- G. Lamond, 2005, Do precedents create rules?
- G. Lamond, 2014, Analogical reasoning in the common law
- E. Levi, 1949, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning, Sections I and II
- J. Pollock, 1987, Defeasible reasoning
- R. Posner, 2006, Reasoning by analogy
- H. Prakken, 2002, An exercise in formalizing teleological case-based reasoning
- H. Prakken, 2004, Analysing reasoning about evidence with formal models of argumentation
- H. Prakken, 2013, On direct and indirect probabilistic reasoning in legal proof
- H. Prakken and J. Horty, 2012, An appreciation of John Pollock's work on the computational study of argument
- H. Prakken and G. Sartor, 1998, Modeling reasoning with precedents in a formal dialogue game
- H. Prakken and G. Sartor, 2006, Presumptions and burden of proof
- H. Prakken and G. Vreeswijk, 2002, Logical systems for defeasible argumentation
- R. Reiter, 1980 A logic for default reasoning
- H. Richardson, 1990, Specifying norms as a way to resolve concrete ethical problems
- E. Rissland and D. Skalak, 1989, Interpreting statutory predicates
- G. Sartor, 2010, Doing justice to rights and values: teleological reasoning and proportionality
- F. Schauer, 1991, Exceptions
- F. Schauer, 2008, Why precedent in law (and elsewhere) is not totally (or even substantially) about analogy
- F. Schauer, 2011, On the open texture of the law
- F. Schauer, 2012 (draft), Is defeasibility an essential property of law?
- D. Skalak and E. Rissland, 1991, Argument moves in a rule-guided domain
- B. Spellman, 2004, Reflections of a recovering lawyer: how becoming a cognitive psychologist---and (in particular) studying analogical and causal reasoning---changed my views about the field of psychology and law
- B. Spellman, 2010, Judges, expertise, and analogy
- C. Sunstein, 1993, On analogical reasoning