Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation by Douglas Walton
This book provides an argumentation model for means end-reasoning, a distinctive type of reasoning used for problem-solving and decision-making. Means end-reasoning is modelled as goal-directed argumentation from an agent's goals and known circumstances, and from an action selected as a means, to a decision to carry out the action. Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation provides an argumentation model of this kind of reasoning showing how it is employed in settings of intelligent deliberation where agents try to collectively arrive at a conclusion on what they should do to move forward in a set of circumstances. The book explains how this argumentation model can help build more realistic computational systems of deliberation and decision-making, and shows how such systems can be applied to solve problems posed by goal-based reasoning in numerous fields, from social psychology and sociology, to law, political science, anthropology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, and robotics.-
Informal Logic
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Methods of Argumentation
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Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation
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Historical Foundations of Informal Logic
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Legal Argumentation and Evidence
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Appeal to Popular Opinion
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The New Dialectic
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Arguments from Ignorance
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Argumentation Schemes
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Character Evidence
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Argumentation Methods for Artificial Intelligence in Law
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Scare Tactics
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Argument Evaluation and Evidence
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Statutory Interpretation
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One-Sided Arguments
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Ethical Argumentation
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Emotive Language in Argumentation
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Plausible Argument in Everyday Conversation
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Relevance in Argumentation
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Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning
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Argument Structure
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Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity
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Burden of Proof, Presumption and Argumentation
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Witness Testimony Evidence
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Media Argumentation
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The Place of Emotion in Argument
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Appeal to Expert Opinion
Douglas Walton is a Canadian academic and author, well known for his many widely published books and papers on argumentation and logic. He is presently Distinguished Research Fellow of the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation and Rhetoric at the University of Windsor, Canada. Walton's work has been used to better prepare legal arguments and to help develop artificial intelligence. His books have been translated worldwide, and he attracts students from many countries to study with him.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781107545090 |
| ISBN 10 | 1107545099 |
| Title | Goal-based Reasoning for Argumentation |
| Author | Douglas Walton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2015-08-31 |
| Number of pages | 301 |
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