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Professor Peter Tillers of Cardozo Law School in New York blogs for JURIST on the latest evidence issues...
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Saturday, November 15, 2003
Interesting books ...

... recently received or acquired:

Andrew Palmer, Proof and the Preparation of Trials (Sydney: Thomson Lawbook, 2003)

Joseph Halpern, Reasoning about Uncertainty (MIT, 2003)

Paul Kirschner, Simon Shum & Chad Carr, eds., Visualizing Argumentation: Software Tools for Collaborative and Educational Sense-Making (Springer, 2003)

Henry E. Kyburg, Jr. & Choh Man Teng, Uncertain Inference (Cambridge U. Press, 2001)

Alva Noë & Evan Thompson, eds., Vision and Mind: Selected Readings in the Philosophy of Perception (MIT, 2002)

Lorenzo Magnani, Abduction, Reason, and Science: Processes of Discovery and Explanation (2001)

Dov M. Gabbay, C. J. Hogger & J. A. Robinson, eds., Epistemic and Temporal Reasoning (Clarendon-Oxford, 1995) (Vol. 4 of HANDBOOK OF LOGIC IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LOGIC PROGRAMMING)

Douglas Walton, Legal Argumentation and Evidence (Pennsylvania State University, 2002)

Two Interesting Books Generally Ignored, Unjustifiably, by Legal Scholars in Evidence:

J.S. Covington, Jr., The Structure of Legal Argument and Proof (John Marshall Pub. Co., 1993) (perhaps a victim of insufficient marketing)

Peter Oehrstroem & Per F. V. Hasle, Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence (Kluwer, 1995)

Another Interesting Book:

Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History (Doubleday, 2003)

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Professor Peter Tillers

"I have practiced a little bit of law -- I worked as a litigator, once in California and once in Texas -- but for most of my professional life I have studied and taught law.

In the early part of my academic career I dabbled in philosophy, particularly the philosophies of Kant and Hegel. But as I matured, I came to my senses. This explains why during the last 15 years I have devoted much more attention to evidence, inference, and proof in litigation than to German Idealism and similar matters. However, I did not succeed in completely obliterating the influence of philosophy and epistemology on my thinking. Thus, in my effort to understand and explain the process of proof in litigation, I have devoted a great deal of attention to matters such as probability theory and theories of evidence, inference, induction, and proof.

Peter Tillers is Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University. He revised volumes 1 &1A of Wigmore on Evidence (1983) and is the author of Probability and Inference in the Law of Evidence (1988; with E. Green).