Tonight Andy Bulka (our software architect) and I went to the “ICT Panorama” event at the University of Melbourne Computer Science and Software Engineering Department. Each year, 4th year students in the department are divided into teams who work on innovative projects for “real world” clients. Austhink Software was assigned a team, code-named “Got Code.” [...]
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Got Code got prize
Posted in Argument Mapping, Austhink, Rationale, Software Startup on October 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Rationale for Rationale now officially available
Posted in Argument Mapping, Rationale on October 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oxford Journals has published my The Rationale for Rationale in Law, Probability and Risk. They’ve sent me is a link to an online pdf version. Judging by the page numbering and the citation (see below) it seems this is an digital- or online-only issue. A good feature of the new system is that the papers [...]
Mega-Litigation
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Legal Argumentation, Reasoning on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe this post should’ve been called “Why judges should be paid more.” Simon Lewis alerted me to the written judgment of Justice Ronald Sackville in the case Seven Network Limited v News Limited, otherwise known as the C7 case, or “Kerry Stokes against the world.” This is a monster (1200 pages, 76mb in rtf format) [...]
Pre-structured maps of legal arguments
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Legal Argumentation on August 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Peter Tillers discusses why DNA can never be regarded, on its own, as conclusive evidence of guilt or innocence. This post makes me wonder about the possibility of a kind of schematic argument map showing how the argument from say a DNA match to guilt would have to go in some more-or-less general version. This [...]
The Rationale for Rationale™
Posted in Argument Mapping, Education, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning, Research on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Now available – the final version of my paper prepared in connection with the conference Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings in January this year. The paper is now called The Rationale for Rationale™.
Whately the …?
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Language on July 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve often commented on how odd it is that argument mapping took so long to appear, only starting to take off in the past decade. After all, argument mapping is really just drawing diagrams showing the relationships among propositions in some piece of reasoning or argumentation on some topic we care about. It is a [...]
How to get going with your thesis
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Reasoning, Research on June 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A new Rationale user working on a PhD thesis emailed the following: I finished my comps in March and have been working to nail down my dissertation topic since. I have too many interests and little discipline so it’s been daunting. Notably, I sat down last week with rationale and decided to map out what [...]
How long does it take to map an argument?
Posted in Argument Mapping, Austhink, Reasoning, Research on May 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
At a number of universities around the world, people are now setting up studies to help determine the extent to which argument maps, or Rationale use, can help build skills or improve performance on difficult tasks. One such person asked in an email: “What is the average time for an adult learner to complete the [...]
Rationale: Making People Smarter
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning on May 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I finally managed to finish off the paper, chunks of which were appearing in previous posts. It is being submitted for possible inclusion in a special issue of the journal Law, Probability and Risk, which will include papers coming out of the Graphic and Visual Representations of Evidence and Inference in Legal Settings [...]
Rationale – Why does it work? – Complementation
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning on May 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Another installment of the in-progress paper. Draft only. Comments welcome 3.2 Complementation A second theme in understanding how a tool such as Rationale can make us smarter is complementation: the tool complements our minds’ natural strengths and weaknesses. Our reasoning abilities are a function of our basic cognitive capacities, which depend in turn on our [...]
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