The Pleadings Game: An Artificial Intelligence Model of Procedural Justice / Edition 1

by Thomas F. Gordon

Overview

The British philosopher Stephan Toulmin, in his The Uses of Argument, made the provocative claim that "logic is generalized jurisprudence". For Toulmin, logic is the study of nonns for practical argumentation and decision making. In his view, mathematical logicians were preoccupied with fonnalizing the concepts of logical necessity, consequence and contradiction, at the expense of other equally important issues, such as how to allocate the burden of proof and make rational decisions given limited resources. He also considered it a mistake to look primarily to psychology, linguistics or the cognitive sciences for answers to these fundamentally nonnative questions. Toulmin's concerns about logic, writing in the 1950's, are equally applicable to the field of Artificial Intelligence today. The mainstream of Artificial Intelligence has focused on the analytical and empirical aspects of intelligence, without giving adequate attention to the nonnative, regulative functions of knowledge representation, problem solving and decision-making. Nonnative issues should now be of even greater interest, with the shift in perspective of AI from individual to collective intelligence, in areas such as multi-agent systems, cooperative design, distributed artificial intelligence, and computer-supported cooperative work. Networked "virtual societies" of humans and software agents would also require "virtual legal systems" to fairly balance interests, resolve conflicts, and promote security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048145911
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/07/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1995
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 The Legal Domain: Article Nine.- 3 Philosophy of Legal Reasoning.- 4 Formal Models of Argumentation.- 5 The Pleadings Game.- 6 An Implementation in Standard ML.- 7 Conclusion.- Appendix A The Article Nine World.- A.1 A9W Article 1; General Provisions.- A.2 A9W Article 2; Sales.- A.3 A9W Article 9; Secured Transactions.- A.4 Legal Principles.- A.5 Common Sense Knowledge.- A.6 Dictionary of Predicate Symbols.- Appendix B Glossary of Legal Terms.- References.

Editorial Reviews

Although the author's preface emphasizes that a formal background in law is not necessary to appreciate this volume, a grounding in artificial intelligence theory would be. Gordon's (GMD-German National Research Center for Information Technology) dissertation on jurisprudence and moral philosophy develops a formal model of argumentation called the pleadings game. It is an extension of recent approaches to nonmonotonic logic: dialogical, defeasible rules subject to debate, and resource limitations acknowledged by rules. The study advances the theory, design, and implementation of systems which mediate discussions and arguments between artificial and human agents, what the author terms "computational dialectics." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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