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ORGANIZER:CN=Lutz Oettershagen:MAILTO:Lutz.Oettershagen@liverpool.ac.uk
DTSTART:20150414T130000
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SUMMARY:School Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Dr Floris Bex: An integrated theory of causal stories and evidential arguments\n\nThe process of proof in legal cases is about using the evidence to establish the facts of a case. It has been argued that both arguments and stories are needed in order to do justice to all the relevant reasoning mechanisms in the process of proof. Stories – coherent causal sequences of events – are needed to organise the complex mass of facts in a case into one or more hypotheses about 'what happened' in the case. Arguments  - defeasible evidential inferences based on evidence - can then be used to support or attack the individual facts in these hypothetical stories. \n\n\n\nIn this talk, I will discuss the integrated formal approach to reasoning in the process of proof, in which arguments and stories can be used in conjunction as well as interchangeably. I will show how 'deductive' and 'abductive' reasoning with causal and evidential rules can be incorporated in a common framework for structured argumentation. This allows for the construction and comparison of causal stories, evidential arguments and mixed causal-evidential structures, and grounds the combination of arguments and stories in well-known dialectical argumentation semantics.\n\nhttps://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/seminars/abstract.php?id=374
LOCATION:Ashton Lecture Theater
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