Solving a murder case by asking critical questions: an approach to fact-finding in terms of argumentation and story schemes

TY - JOUR

T1 - Solving a murder case by asking critical questions

T2 - an approach to fact-finding in terms of argumentation and story schemes

AU - Bex, Floris

AU - Verheij, Bart

N1 - Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - In this paper, we look at reasoning with evidence and facts in criminal cases. We show how this reasoning may be analysed in a dialectical way by means of critical questions that point to typical sources of doubt. We discuss critical questions about the evidential arguments adduced, about the narrative accounts of the facts considered, and about the way in which the arguments and narratives are connected in an analysis. Our treatment shows how two different types of knowledge, represented as schemes, play a role in reasoning with evidence: argumentation schemes and story schemes.

AB - In this paper, we look at reasoning with evidence and facts in criminal cases. We show how this reasoning may be analysed in a dialectical way by means of critical questions that point to typical sources of doubt. We discuss critical questions about the evidential arguments adduced, about the narrative accounts of the facts considered, and about the way in which the arguments and narratives are connected in an analysis. Our treatment shows how two different types of knowledge, represented as schemes, play a role in reasoning with evidence: argumentation schemes and story schemes.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84864605522

U2 - 10.1007/s10503-011-9257-0

DO - 10.1007/s10503-011-9257-0

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84864605522

SN - 0920-427X

VL - 26

SP - 325

EP - 353

JO - Argumentation

JF - Argumentation

IS - 3

ER -