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 [...]
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New book on teoría de la argumentación
Posted in Argument Mapping, Argumentation, Critical Thinking, Education, Teaching, Uncategorized on January 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
How are critical thinking skills acquired? Five perspectives
Posted in Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Education, Expertise, Reasoning, Teaching, Thinking on October 20, 2010 | 5 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.
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 [...]
Dangers of Datacentrism
Posted in Business, Critical Thinking, Datacentrism, Decision Making, Research, Thinking on May 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
A common decision making trap is thinking more data = better decision – and so, to make a better decision, you should go out and get more data. Let’s call this the datacentric fallacy. Of course there are times when you don’t have enough information, when having more information (of the right kind) would [...]
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.
Asbestos and Extinctions
Posted in Critical Thinking, Risk on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Over the Xmas break various family members were engaging in an interesting conversation whose starting point was the way many people are excessively, indeed sometimes hysterically concerned about the dangers of asbestos fibres from nearby demolitions or renovations. The background theme was how poorly people understand risks, especially small risks, and how they misplace their [...]
On Buying Cheese
Posted in Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Skepticism on October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The current issue of Choice Magazine (the Australian “Consumer Reports”) has a report on cheddar cheese. They had five experts blindly rate 28 cheddar cheeses, ranging from your cloth- or wax-wrapped special deli cheddar at $50+ dollars per kilo down to the supermarket brands, sometimes less than $10 per kilo. Eyeballing the results table, it [...]
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 [...]
Support is transitive?
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Critical Thinking, Reasoning on March 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
On the news tonight there was coverage of protests in Washington against the Iraq war. There was a soundbite of an Iraq veteran saying “You can’t support the troops and oppose the war, because the troops support the war.” These thoughts flashed through my mind in quick succession: Argument. Argument, very concisely expressed. Bad argument. [...]
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