Following on from the previous post, here is the argument map of the “Gang of 43″ case that the Coalition of the Willing’s war on Iraq would be illegal: Viewing options: Click on the image above to view a full-size version; or (better) view a PDF version; or (best) download the original bCisive file, allowing [...]
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The War was Illegal
Posted in Argument Mapping, Deliberation, Legal Argumentation on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yes, the war was legal – argument map
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Legal Argumentation, Teaching on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Greg Hunt’s brave case that the Iraq war was in fact legal presented in an argument map.
Figuring out what We believe
Posted in Argument Mapping, Austhink, Belief, Deliberation, Rationale Consensus, Wisdom of Crowds on March 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Think of a collection of people as having a kind of collective mind. How can you find out what that collective mind believes? That may sound like a fanciful philosophical question, but it has very real, even urgent applications. For example the IPCC is a collection of hundreds of scientists, and they put out reports [...]
What is argument mapping?
Posted in Argument Mapping on February 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Print-friendly version (3 page pdf) Entry to appear in H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Volume expected to appear in 2011. Argument Mapping Argument mapping is diagramming the structure of argument, construed broadly to include any kind of argumentative activity such as reasoning, inferences, debates, and cases. This entry briefly [...]
Earliest argument map?
Posted in Argument Mapping on February 15, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The argument mapping community generally deems the first occurrence of argument mapping to be in Richard Whately’s Elements of Logic textbook, first published in 1826. (See e.g. Reed, C., Walton, D. & Macagno, F. (2007) “Argument diagramming in logic, law and artificial intelligence”, Knowledge Engineering Review, 22 (1), pp87-109; p.93.) To me it is implausible that there are [...]
Bouquets appreciated
Posted in Argument Mapping, Rationale on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been engaged (with a great team) in building argument mapping software for over a decade now. Its been an uphill battle most of the way. The acid test of success is sales, but there are other measures, such as positive, insightful feedback from users who “get it,” i.e. understand what we’ve done. Such as [...]
The three kinds of deliberative judgement
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Austhink, Decision Making, Rationale on November 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
[originally posted to BlogCisive] To a first approximation, all deliberative judgements (i.e., those that turn on to-some-degree careful consideration of the relevant arguments) can be usefully sorted into three kinds. These are the three Ds of judgement. 1. Decision Decision is a matter of choosing from among options, particularly where those options are possible actions. [...]
Tools for Thinking – Management Consulting
Posted in Argument Mapping, bCisive, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Draft magazine piece. Comments welcome. In the late 1950s, a young engineer by the name of Douglas Engelbart made a decision that was to have a immense effect on all of our lives. Engelbart realised that the massive challenges faced by humanity, such as hunger or nuclear war, would place unprecedented demands on our thinking [...]
Hypothesis testing – What’s Wrong with ACH?
Posted in ACH, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Argument Mapping, Hypothesis Testing on December 31, 2007 | 7 Comments »
A condensed version of this has been published as Can we do better than ACH? AIPIO News, Issue 55, December 2008, pp.4-5. The “Analysis of Competing Hypotheses” method, or ACH, is one of the most important tools on the intelligence analyst’s bench. It is a procedure for determining which of a range of hypotheses is [...]
Dinosaurs and inference rebuttals
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Explanation, Rationale on November 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Spotted at the Creation Museum: Q: Are human bones found with dinosaur fossils? A: None have been discovered yet. However, if human bones aren’t found with dinosaur bones, it simply means they weren’t buried together. Humans have come in contact with lots of animals, like crocodiles and coelecanths, but they aren’t buried with humans. The [...]
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