Abstract Information technology is so ubiquitous and AI's progress so inspiring that also
legal professionals experience its benefits and have high expectations. At the same time, the …

Coherentism is a central position in the longstanding debate about the structure of epistemic
justification. Coherence is also a main topic in the new, emerging, field of formal …

Doug Walton, who died in January 2020, was a prolific author whose work in informal logic
and argumentation had a profound influence on Artificial Intelligence, including Artificial …

The first issue of Artificial Intelligence and Law journal was published in 1992. This paper
provides commentaries on nine significant papers drawn from the Journal's second decade …

For entrepreneurial narratives to be effective, they need to be judged as plausible and have
to resonate with an audience. Prior research has, however, not examined or explained how …

In this paper we illustrate how novel AI methods can improve the performance of intelligence
analysts. These analysts aim to make sense of—often conflicting or incomplete …

The aim of intelligence analysis is to make sense of information that is often conflicting or
incomplete, and to weigh competing hypotheses that may explain a situation. This imposes …

This book provides an in-depth overview of what is currently happening in the field of Law
and Artificial Intelligence (AI). From deep fakes and disinformation to killer robots, surgical …

Whether abduction is treated as an argument or as an inference, the mainstream view
presupposes a tight connection between abduction and inference to the best explanation …

Mistakes in evidential reasoning can have severe consequences. Especially, errors in the
use of statistics have led to serious miscarriages of justice. Fact-finders and forensic experts …