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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dynamic approaches to cognition | Encyclopedia entry; provides brief overview of the dynamical approach | 1999 |
| Distributed vs. 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 |
| 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 |
| The Dynamical Hypothesis in Cognitive Science | Major research article on dynamical approaches to the study of cognition | 1998 |
| What Might Cognition Be If Not Computation? | Major paper published in the leading philosophy journal. "Manifesto" for the dynamical approach to cognition. | 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 |
| 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 |
| Gall, Flourens and the Concept of Distribution | Unpublished manuscript | 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 |
| 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. Large (20mb) file | 1989 |
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