Rhetoric and/or Violence

Law as Rhetoric, Rhetoric as Argument

Many lawyers lack a basic understanding of the structure and process of legal argumentation. Their limited understanding, which often leads to less than effective advocacy, stems from legal education's failure to make the structure and process of legal argument explicit and systematic. One approach to this problem is to explore the intrinsic relationship of law to rhetoric. Because law and rhet...

Psychology of Popular Media Culture Violent Video Games and Real-World Violence: Rhetoric Versus Data

Heroic Realism: Rhetoric and Violence in Narratives of Justice and Discourses of Decision

After the evacuation of a transcendental ethic as a universal yardstick or law for action, notions of justice, morality and the law nevertheless remain policed, and are still invested in by strong systems of belief and prejudice. This thesis sets out to analyse the tradition and prevalence of “idealising” moments of consequence, judgement and decision and their specific relation to a transcende...

Strategies for Scheduling And - andOr - Work in Parallel Logic Program

Recent parallel logic programming systems, such as Andorra-I, can exploit multiple forms of parallelism, and-and or-parallelism, in logic programs. In order to eeectively exploit both kinds of parallelism, such systems must address one problem not yet tackled in logic programming systems, namely how to distribute resources between two diierent kinds of parallel work, and-and or-work. This paper...

Rhetoric of Myth, Magic, and Conversion: Ancient Irish Rhetoric

Our first tendency is to look outside Europe when searching for ancient rhetorics that do not follow the Greco-Roman tradition. After all, much of European culture was strongly influenced by Roman culture, especially following the conquests of Julius Caesar in 58-51 BCE and subsequent conquests that brought most of Europe under Roman control. Rome’s civic practices, including variations of Grec...