This site makes available some of my publications. Many, particularly pre-2000, are not yet available here. I'll be gradually extending the collection over time. |
Publications
Title | Comment | Year |
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Mapping our COVID-19 Recovery | Online magazine article describing how the SWARM platform was used in a major collective wisdom exercise | 2020 |
Improving analytic reasoning via crowdsourcing and structured analytic techniques | Journal article presenting theoretical framing and headline results from major study of SWARM platform | 2020 |
The Role of Narrative in Collaborative Reasoning and Intelligence Analysis | Journal article describing an enthnographic analysis of how intelligence analysts use narrative-based reasoning | 2020 |
Elicitation of stakeholder insights to military platform current and future sustainment challenges | Conference paper describing results from an elicitation process I helped facilitate for Defense Science Technology Group. Topic is future work in sensors and analytics for military aircraft sustainment. | 2019 |
The Design and Development of a Cloud-based Platform Supporting Team-oriented Evidence-based Reasoning: SWARM Systems Paper | Conference paper overview of SWARM. Co-authored with many SWARM Project colleagues | 2019 |
Crowdsourcing citizen intelligence | Conference paper - discusses the emergence of citizen intelligence and implications for governments and intelligence agencies | 2019 |
Bellingcat’s report on MH17 shows citizens can and will do intelligence work | Magazine piece. Short version of Crowdsourcing Citizen Intelligence | 2019 |
Contending Analyses | First short paper presenting the concept of Contending Analyses as a new structured analytical technique | 2019 |
Using Computer-Aided Argument Mapping to Teach Reasoning | Overview article for educators. Introduces key concepts of argument mapping. | 2019 |
SWARM: Cultivating Evidence-based Reasoning | First substantial article about the SWARM platform | 2018 |
Crowdsourcing Security Intelligence | Magazine piece about SWARM Project | 2018 |
Pursuing Fundamental Advances in Reasoning | Brief overview of SWARM, relating it to AGI | 2017 |
Guide to Expert Elicitation within Defence | Technical Report for internal Defence use | 2017 |
Mapping an Argument | One page magazine article discussing how argument mapping can help improve e.g. biosecurity risk analysis documents. | 2016 |
Augmenting Expert Elicitation with Structured Visual Deliberation | Describes the process used to handle a complex estimation problem, and how dialogue mapping was used to augment the process. | 2016 |
Using Argument Mapping To Improve Critical Thinking | Chapter in Handbook of Critical Thinking in Higher Education | 2015 |
Decision Analysis for Tax Matters | Conference paper introducing some uses of decision analysis for tax specialists | 2014 |
Do you hold a Bayesian or a Boolean worldview? | Newspaper opinion piece | 2014 |
Argument Mapping | 1000 word overview of argument mapping. Encyclopedia entry. | 2013 |
The Wisdom Of Polls | Magazine piece defending the idea of collective minds, with brief overview of YourView | 2013 |
YourView - Whats Next in Journalism | Book chapter; brief overview of YourView, with a focus on the issue clarifiers aspect, plus a little personal reflection. | 2013 |
Argument Mapping as a Tool for Analysis of Complex Problems within Fleet Acquisition and Through-Life Support | Conference paper co-authored with a group of defence scientists | 2013 |
Cultivating Deliberation for Democracy | Piece for Journal of Public Deliberation. Describes YourView | 2012 |
Sustainability demands public wisdom | Short version of the Public Wisdom chapter | 2012 |
Public Wisdom | Chapter for a book on actions for sustainability. Makes the case for a "national virtual forum" | 2012 |
Interview in The Reasoner | Magazine interview by Kevin Korb, with Kevin's introduction. Covers my career, and argument mapping. | 2010 |
The Wise Delinquency of Decision Makers | Magazine article discussing deliberative versus formal decision methods. | 2010 |
Enhancing our Grasp of Complex Arguments | An overview of why argument mapping is a Good Thing. Co-authored with Paul Monk. First appeared as a speech in 2004, now published in Spanish translation. | 2010 |
Hi-Trees and Their Layout | Computer science article on layout algorithms. Defines notion of a hi-tree, the fundamental "topology" of argument structures. Lead author Kim Marriott | 2010 |
Strong Theory, Weak Dialogue | Magazine piece on traffic congestion and dialogue mapping. Coauthored with Bern Grush. | 2010 |
What is Decision Mapping? | Brief overview | 2010 |
Critical Thinking: Reasoning and Communicating with Rationale | Co-authored book published in English and Dutch. Learning materials for use with Rationale. | 2009 |
Improving Board Decision Making | Draft whitepaper | 2009 |
Enhancing Board Deliberations with Decision Mapping - Summary | Compact (6 page) version of full whitepaper | 2009 |
Mapping out the Options | Short online magazine-type piece. Discusses decision mapping as an elaboration of Ben Franklin's "moral algebra". | 2009 |
Guide to Making Business Decisions with bCisive | 16 page whitepaper; first articulation of Business Decision Mapping. | 2008 |
Can We Do Better Than ACH? | Newsletter piece discussing shortcomings of the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses method. | 2008 |
Visualizing Argument Structure | Computer science paper on the algorithms behind the Rationale software. Paper co-authored with Peter Sbarski (lead author), Kim Marriott and others. | 2008 |
The Rationale for Rationale™ | Research article on the Rationale software; explores three explanations of its utility | 2007 |
Does Philosophy Improve Reasoning Skills? | MA thesis by Claudia Alvarez, at the time a student of mine. Contains meta-analysis of studies of critical thinking gains, including the Reason Project studies. | 2007 |
Vertical Thinking | One page promotional piece | 2006 |
Critical Thinking for Risk Mitigation | Magazine-type article in Journal of the Chartered Secretaries Australia. | 2006 |
Revisiting the Dynamical Hypothesis | Book chapter | 2006 |
I think therefore I am confused | Opinion piece on argument mapping | 2005 approx |
Beyond the Mind Body Problem | Book chapter. Similar to Monism, Dualism, Pluralism | 2005 |
Teaching Critical Thinking - Some Lessons from Cognitive Science | Readable overview of the challenges of teaching critical thinking | 2005 |
Enhancing and Augmenting Human Reasoning | Book chapter describing how software-supported argument mapping can improve reasoning skills and performance | 2005 |
Cultivating Expertise in Informal Reasoning | Psychology journal article showing that deliberate practice using argument mapping can improve reasoning skills | 2004 |
Enhancing Deliberation Through Computer Supported Argument Mapping | Book chapter; first substantial description of the Reason method and Reason!Able software | 2002 |
Argument Mapping with Reason!Able | Good overview of Reason!Able | 2002 |
Reason! Project Studies, 1999-2002 | Technical report presenting a mass of data concerning efficacy of the Reason Method | 2002 |
A 'Reason!Able' Approach to Critical Thinking | Magazine piece explaining the relevance of one of my first argument mapping software packages for educators | 2002 |
Critical Thinking: Some Lessons Learned | One page summary of some lessons from the Reason Project. | 2001 |
The Reason! Project | Overview written for the magazine of the Australian Skeptics, after they awarded me a Eureka Prize. | 2001 |
How To Improve Critical Thinking Using Educational Technology | Another conference paper presenting results from the Reason Project. | 2001 |
Learning to Reason: A Reason!-Able Approach | Early research article showing good results from the Reason Project. Rare screenshot of the Reason 2 software. | 2000 |
Of all the bars, in all the world... | Magazine article. Philosophical discussion our our prospects for extinction due to advanced physics experiments | 2000 |
Reason!: Improving Informal Reasoning Skills | Another early conference paper from the Reason Project | 2000 |
Wooden Iron? Husserlian Phenomenology Meets Cognitive Science | Conference paper turned into a book chapter. Relates Husserl's theories of "time consciousness" to dynamical models of cognition. A bit of a surprise hit in the "neurophenomenology" field. | 2000 |
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Desire's Hold over Reason | Overview of confirmation bias. Magazine piece | 1999 |
Critical thinking in physiology: A Reason!-able approach | The first publication to emerge from the Reason Project research. | 1999 |
Defending the Dynamical Hypothesis | Book chapter | 1999 |
Dynamic approaches to cognition | Encyclopedia entry; provides brief overview of the dynamical approach | 1999 |
Distributed versus Local Representation | Encyclopedia entry; briefly conveys the concept of distributed representation | 1999 |
Penicillin for the Mind | Early, readable "big picture" overview of the Reason! Project. | 1998 |
Computers and Computation in Cognitive Science | Book chapter | 1998 |
Cognitive Architecture: What Choice Do We Have? | Book chapter | 1998 |
The Roles of Philosophy in Cognitive Science | Journal article. Overview of how philosophers contribute to cognitive science. Somewhat light-hearted. | 1998 |
Into the Deep Blue Yonder | Philosophical magazine article discussing the rise of artificial intelligence, on the occasion of the famous chess match between Deep Blue and Kasparov. | 1998 |
Review of Clark, Being There | Book Review | 1998 |
Monism, Dualism, Pluralism | My solution to the mind-body problem | 1998 |
The Dynamical Hypothesis in Cognitive Science | Major research article on dynamical approaches to the study of cognition | 1998 |
The Dynamical Alternative | Book chapter. Adaptation of What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation? | 1997 |
Author's Response: Review Symposium on Mind as Motion | Response to four reviews of our edited volume Mind as Motion | 1997 |
Dynamics and Cognition | An adapted version of What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation? | 1997 |
Connectionism, Dynamics and the Philosophy of Mind | Book chapter. Includes my prophesy that "Connectionism" would disappear in 1-2 decades as a field of academic research | 1997 |
What Might Cognition Be If Not Computation? | Major paper published in the leading philosophy journal. "Manifesto" for the dynamical approach to cognition. | 1995 |
Modeling Connectionist and Otherwise | Book chapter | 1995 |
Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition | A book I co-edited with Robert Port. It was the first major presentation of the dynamical approach to cognition. | 1995 |
Its About Time | Introduction to Mind as Motion, the edited volume Bob Port and I put together. A comprehensive introduction to the dynamical approach. | 1995 |
Can connectionist models exhibit non-classical structure sensitivity? | Conference paper presenting a connectionist model. | 1994 |
On Being Systematically Connectionist | Journal article on an obscure issue in a debate that seemed very important back in the early 90s. | 1994 |
Classicalism and cognitive architecture | Disputes claims that "classical" cognitive architectures explain the claimed "systematicity" of human cognition better than connectionist architectures. | 1994 |
Beyond Symbolic | More on compositionality debate | 1994 |
Compositionality and Dynamics in Neural Network Representations | Journal article - Semiotiques | 1994 |
Is Cognition Categorization? | Explores, and rejects, the view (popular at the time) that all cognition is a form of categorization. | 1993 |
The Distinction Between Mind and Cognition | Book chapter explaining why cognitive science is not in fact the science of the mind | 1993 |
Connectionism and the Mind Body Problem | Journal article | 1993 |
Defining 'Distributed Representation' | Journal article - key part of my PhD dissertation | 1992 |
Making Conceptual Space | Book chapter. Extended commentary on a paper by Jeffrey Elman, Grammatical Structure and Distributed Representations | 1992 |
Gall, Flourens and the Concept of Distribution | Unpublished manuscript | 1991 |
Classical Questions, Radical Answers | Book chapter | 1991 |
Brave Neurocomputational World | Review of a profound, exciting book by "neurophilosopher" Paul Churchland. | 1991 |
Credible Threats and Usable Weapons | Why nuclear deterrence is very problematic. My first academic publication | 1990 |
Why Distributed Representation is Inherently Non-Symbolic | Book chapter | 1990 |
Compositionality: A Connectionist Variation on a Classical Theme | My first publication in cognitive science. Journal article on some obscure, subtle issues in knowledge representation. | 1990 |
Distributed Representation | My PhD thesis. An attempt to describe, in the most general way, how knowledge is represented in the mind/brain. Couple of my best years sunk into this. | 1989 |
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