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™.
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The Rationale for Rationale™
Posted in Argument Mapping, Education, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning, Research on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
"One especially ambitious new offering…"
Posted in Austhink, Cognition, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning on May 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The eminent journalist and author James Fallows writes an influential technology column, and in the latest one has discussed Rationale, in the context of software tools to help people “develop, refine, and express ideas”. I didn’t realise it upon first reading, but buried in the article is an account of the various kinds and levels [...]
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 [...]
Rationale – Why does it work? – Usability
Posted in Argument Mapping, Intelligence Augmentation, Rationale, Reasoning, Research on April 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
As mentioned a few posts ago, I’ve been resisting the temptation to write in this space, due to an academic paper demanding completion. The paper is about Rationale, for a legal journal; here is the “table of contents”: Rationale: A Generic Argument Mapping Tool Introduction 1. Rationale Overview 2. Making Humans Smarter. 2.1 Educational 2.2 [...]
"No agony, just ecstasy"
Posted in Argument Mapping, Rationale, Reasoning on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A warm review of Rationale. Some particularly interesting quotes: “mapping out my arguments in geekish detail isn’t so much about control freakery, it’s more about providing the foundation for the spontaneity needed for playing around, for creative thinking.” “As I move reasons and objections around, I make major changes to the argument. Or, rather, I [...]
Less Futz = More Work
Posted in Rationale on April 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This blog has been dormant for a number of weeks, because I’ve been giving higher priority to trying to finish an academic paper on Rationale which is now many weeks overdue. To write the paper, I’ve been using Google Docs. Compared with Word, it is quite rudimentary. There’s lots you can’t do. But in this [...]
Arguments for compound events
Posted in Argument, Argument Mapping, Rationale, Reasoning on February 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Peter Tillers raised an important issue on the Rationale google group: “I will have to figure out how best to use ‘Rationale’ to assess the occurrence or non-occurrence of “composite events,” e.g., an event X consisting of events a, b + c. This is because in law the factual events in question in adjudication and [...]
Rationale 1.2 now available
Posted in Austhink, Rationale on February 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We’ve just released an update to Rationale. No dramatic changes, but a bunch of enhancements aimed at improving the “user experience” and the general usefulness of the software. Annotate maps by attaching sticky notes View maps in full-screen mode Present maps using improved layout options Enjoy animated zooming Keep workspace organised using auto-spacing of maps [...]
Like Western Mass., only more so
Posted in Austhink, Rationale, Software Startup on February 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Bill Bither of Atalasoft has an interesting post on the pros and cons of “Starting a software company outside a startup hub.” “Outside,” for him, means an hour and a half drive away from the centre of gravity, which in his case is Boston. There is no software startup hub remotely comparable to Silicon Valley [...]
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