Q: Can argument mapping be used in strategic planning? A: Of course! – because strategic planning involves complex arguments, and argument mapping can help whenever you have to deal with complex arguments. However to move beyond that sort of trite proclamation, it is useful to have concrete examples of how argument mapping can enhance a [...]
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Argument mapping in strategic planning
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Austhink, bCisive, Mapping, Planning, Strategy on July 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Argument Maps versus Argument Infographics
Posted in Argument infographics, Argument Mapping, Uncategorized, Visual Deliberation on May 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Argument infographics are not really argument maps, but may still be good ways to communicate complex arguments to general audiences.
New book on teoría de la argumentación
Posted in Argument Mapping, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Education, Teaching, Uncategorized on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fernando Leal and colleagues at the University of Guadalajara have released Introducción a la Teoría de la Argumentación, an integrated selection of pieces intended to assist students and their teachers to focus on argumentation when reading and writing academic texts. The section Parte II: La téchnica de mapeo de argumentos (argument mapping) contains three pieces emerging [...]
How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education, Expertise, Reasoning, Teaching, Thinking on October 20, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The five main theories about how critical thinking skills are acquired are Formal Training, Theoretical Instruction, Situated Cognition, Practice, and Evolutionary Psychology. The most credible theory is Practice.
What is visual deliberation?
Posted in Argument Mapping, Deliberation, IBIS, Mapping, Visual Deliberation on September 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Recently I’ve started to use “visual deliberation” as a catch-all term for the various mapping techniques and activities we use in our activities at Austhink (argument mapping, IBIS-based issue mapping, etc.). Happily, the more I use it, the more apt it seems. What we’re typically doing is helping people to deliberate more effectively, and [...]
Argument Mapping in Your Subject – workshop and website
Posted in Argument Mapping, Teaching on June 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow Martin Davies and I are conducting a workshop at Melbourne University under the heading “Argument Mapping in Your Subject”. It is intended for university-level educators interested in somehow incorporating argument mapping into their teaching. Around 60 educators are enrolled, with about half from Melbourne University and half from other universities around Australia. It [...]
Interview in “The Reasoner”
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Mapping, Rationale, Reasoning on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The free online magazine The Reasoner has recently published an interview with me in their February 2010 issue. Much of it is discussing argument mapping and its uses. However the first third or so of the interview covers my earlier work in the foundations of cognitive science (distributed representation, dynamical systems and such topics). Thanks [...]
Some argument mapping reading
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Martin Davies, a colleague of mine at the University of Melbourne and a energetic advocate of argument mapping in teaching critical thinking has published “Computer-assisted argument mapping: a rationale approach” in the journal Higher Education. In the article Martin describes using argument mapping in an upper-level Economics subject, and discusses how the students themselves regarded the [...]
Why are legal arguments so hard to follow?
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Language, Legal Argumentation, Rationale, Reasoning on August 13, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Judges use written judgements to convey the complex set of arguments supporting their decision. However it is difficult to extract the arguments from those written judgements, at the level of clarity and rigour demanded by good-quality argument mapping. This difficulty is due in large part to various aspects of traditional legal prose.
Simple but not easy
Posted in Argument Mapping, Decision mapping, Hypothesis mapping, Mapping, Thinking on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“As I have said many times, it is simple, but not easy.” – Warren Buffett. Buffett is of course talking about investment, but the same seems to me to be true of mapping (whether of the decision, argument or hypothesis variants). The principles are simple enough. What for example could be simpler to state and [...]
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