Ethical guidelines for argument mapping
Preliminary ethical guidelines for research involving extraction of public tweets for network visualisation. It seems an open question whether reasonable...
Argument mapping
An ‘argument map’ made using a method developed over the past few weeks, producing a variant of established procedures for...
7 questions relating to the existence of possible worlds
1. To make a case that possible worlds exist, in what ways can they be accounted for. 2. Is the...
Why fiction can’t be the imaginary
If fiction is defined as what is ‘imaginary’ problems arise because the move renders the phenomenon dependent on authorial intent....
Why Abstract Propositions are of Utility, by way of Jabberwocky.
To illustrate the utility of abstract propositions, consider that Jabberwocky, in talking of ‘slithy toves’, references two fictional worlds, fw,...
Poll reporting and Margin of Error.
For good or ill – well, ill – polling has become a cornerstone of the Australian political process. This is...
Defining Propaganda: criteria and examples
The term ‘propaganda’ has negative connotations in modern communications, meaning that it sometimes seems to equate to ‘bad’ or ‘unethical’...
The Posthuman (a lecture)
‘In their ten-thousand, three hundred and ninth year of marriage, Leila and Jasim began contemplating death. They had known love,...
That all texts are the same text (if of similar length)
Philosophers muse on the ideal pre-emptive reading for an attempt to climb through clouds to the summits of Hegelian abstraction....
