Introduction: Perceptions of cooperation and clash of logic and law – opening thoughts about the utilities of logic for law (Scott Brewer)

Themes Covered in this session:

1. Introduction to the method of studying law and logic in the course: The Logocratic Method

Assigned readings

• Brewer, Logocratic Method and the Virtues and Vices of Arguments (2017)
• Brewer, Evident Virtue (2017)
• Monge v Beebe Rubber Company
• Brewer, Logocratic Analysis of Monge
• Knapp v State link

Optional readings:

• Grice, Logic and Conversation
• Holmes, O.W. The Path of the law link
• Sainsbury, M. (2001). Logical Forms: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell, Oxford. Ch 1
• Pollock, J.L. Logic: An Introduction to the Formal Study of Reasoning
• Brewer, S. Traversing Holmes’s Path Toward a Jurisprudence of Logical Form (link)
• Alchourron, C. E. (1996). On law and logic
• Fallacies (link)
• Logic in Action (website)
• Logic in Action (PDF file, including answers to the exercises)