Books by Douglas (University of Windsor Walton

Practical argumentation is intelligent reasoning from an agent's goals and known circumstances, and from an action selected as a means, to arrive at a decision on what action to take. This book will appeal to a wide audience, from designers of multi-agent and robotics systems to social scientists.

This book explains how burden of proof and presumption work as powerful devices in argumentation, based on studying many clearly explained legal and non-legal examples.

This book, written by a leading expert, and based on the latest research, shows how to apply methods of argumentation to a range of interesting examples. Written in a nontechnical style, the book explains what you most need to know by applying the methods to many real examples of arguments found in everyday conversational exchanges and legal argumentation.

Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From television commercials to war propaganda it can greatly influence public opinion. Walton takes a fresh look at the influence of mass media, showing the intersection of media sources with argumentation theory, informal logic, computational theory, and theories of persuasion.

Provides a systematic analysis of major argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. Surveying all aspects of argumentation schemes from the ground up, the book takes the reader from the elementary exposition to the latest state of the art in the research efforts to formalize and classify the schemes.

Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail.

Recent work in artificial intelligence has increasingly turned to argumentation as a rich, interdisciplinary area of research. In this book, Douglas Walton provides an introduction to basic concepts, tools, and methods in argumentation theory and artificial intelligence as applied to the analysis and evaluation of witness testimony.