European University Institute – University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Session 04.2.2
Monday, 22 July, second afternoon session: 16h-17h30
Analogical reasoning: Part 1 (Scott Brewer, Giovanni Sartor)
Themes covered in this session:
Analogical reasoning: an explanation of the basic invariant structure of reasoning by analogy, with exercises for representing analogical (and disanalogical) legal arguments
Analogical argument in example-based, case-based and casuistic arguments
Brewer, Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Reasoning By Analogy (especially Parts I, IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII) (link)
Grice, P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In Cole, P. and Morgan, J. L., editors, Syntax and Semantics, Vol. 3, Speech Acts, pages 41–58. Academic Press. (link)