Reasoning with Rules

An Essay on Legal Reasoning and Its Underlying Logic

Jaap Hage (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1997
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-4773-1 (ISBN)

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Rule-applying legal arguments are traditionally treated as a kind of syllogism. Such a treatment overlooks the fact that legal principles and rules are not statements which describe the world, but rather means by which humans impose structure on the world. Legal rules create legal consequences, they do not describe them. This has consequences for the logic of rule- and principle-applying arguments, the most important of which may be that such arguments are defeasible. This book offers an extensive analysis of the role of rules and principles in legal reasoning, which focuses on the close relationship between rules, principles, and reasons. Moreover, it describes a logical theory which assigns a central place to the notion of reasons for and against a conclusion, and which is especially suited to deal with rules and principles.

I Introduction.- II Of Reasons.- III Reasoning with Rules.- IV Reason-Based Logic.- V Applications of Reason-Based Logic.- VI Concluding Observations.- References.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.

Reihe/Serie	Law and Philosophy Library ; 27
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 266 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
ISBN-10	90-481-4773-5 / 9048147735
ISBN-13	978-90-481-4773-1 / 9789048147731
Zustand	Neuware