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Name: Methods of Argumentation
Author: Douglas Walton

📘 Methods of Argumentation by Douglas Walton

Focusing on the interaction of arguments for and against conclusions, Methods of Argumentation presents practical tools for analyzing everyday conversational exchanges and formal legal reasoning. The book opens with a clear overview of argumentative methods, then applies them to classic problems in the field. It also reviews how computing—particularly artificial intelligence and multi‑agent systems—has adopted argumentation as a research paradigm, offering refined computational techniques that scholars in law, science, and business can employ.

First publish date: 2013

Genre: Philosophy/Epistemology

Authors: Douglas Walton

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