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On Legal Teleological Reasoning

Adam Wyner Orcid Logo, Tomasz Zurek

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume: 379

Swansea University Author: Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.3233/faia230948

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Given a common pool of facts and legal rules, Judges on a panel may form different justifications for decisions, which are then voted upon. It is clear that a Judge’s personal values and purposes play in developing their opinion, which is a form of teleological reasoning. The paper introduces the Va...

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Published in: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN: 9781643684727 9781643684734
ISSN: 0922-6389 1879-8314
Published: IOS Press 2023
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70979
Abstract: Given a common pool of facts and legal rules, Judges on a panel may form different justifications for decisions, which are then voted upon. It is clear that a Judge’s personal values and purposes play in developing their opinion, which is a form of teleological reasoning. The paper introduces the Value-based Formal Reasoning (VFR) framework, which describes how a Judge’s personal values can be used in the construction of a justification for a decision.
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering