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23This argument map justifies the claim that using only deductive argument schemes in computer-supported argument visualization stimulates reflection on some of one's implicit background assumptions.
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Jona oder die Kunst, unrecht haben zu können. Überlegungen zur hermeneutischen PraxisLesarten. Zeitschrift Für Interpretation 2. 1994.
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23What you should know to survive in knowledge societies: On a semiotic understanding of ‘knowledge’Semiotica 2005 (157): 105-142. 2005.Different situations — like school and workplace — demand different forms of knowledge. Even more important, in particular for lifelong learning, are forms of knowledge we need for managing movements between those situations. To develop a better understanding of how to ‘navigate’ knowledge boundaries, this paper analyzes, firstly, interviews with scientists interpreting familiar and unfamiliar graphs. Our goal is to identify those forms of knowledge that should receive special attention in educa…Read more
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15Diagrams as Scaffolds for CreativityAaai Workshops, North America. 2010.Based on a typology of five basic forms of abduction, I propose a new definition of abductive insight that empha sizes in particular the inferential structure of a belief system that is able to explain a phenomenon after a new, abductive ly created component has been added to this system or the entire system has been abductively restructured. My thesis is, first, that the argumentative structure of the pursued problem solution guides abductive creativity and, second, that diagrammatic reasoning—…Read more
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Rezension zu: Hans Jonas, Das Prinzip Verantwortung. Versuch einer Ethik für die technologische Zivilisation, Frankfurt a.M. 1984 (review)Zeitschrift Für Politik 35. 1988.
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Peirces Philosophie der Wissenschaft, Logik und Erkenntnistheorie.(Teil 2)Philosophische Rundschau 51 (4): 296-313. 2004.
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147Learning from people, things, and signsStudies in Philosophy and Education 26 (3): 185-204. 2007.Starting from the observation that small children can count more objects than numbers—a phenomenon that I am calling the “lifeworld dependency of cognition”—and an analysis of finger calculation, the paper shows how learning can be explained as the development of cognitive systems. Parts of those systems are not only an individual’s different forms of knowledge and cognitive abilities, but also other people, things, and signs. The paper argues that cognitive systems are first of all semiotic sys…Read more
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Die Philosophie der Mathematik bei Charles S. Peirce im Kontext seines "evolutionären Realismus". Eine Untersuchung zum Peirceschen KontinuitätsprinzipDialektik. Enzyklopädische Zeitschrift Für Philosophie Und Wissenschaften 1994. 1994.
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933Diagrammatic Reasoning as the Basis for Developing Concepts: A Semiotic Analysis of Students' Learning about Statistical DistributionEducational Studies in Mathematics 60. 2005.In recent years, semiotics has become an innovative theoretical framework in mathematics education. The purpose of this article is to show that semiotics can be used to explain learning as a process of experimenting with and communicating about one's own representations of mathematical problems. As a paradigmatic example, we apply a Peircean semiotic framework to answer the question of how students learned the concept of "distribution" in a statistics course by "diagrammatic reasoning" and by de…Read more
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15This argument map represents an argumentation from Heyns, C. . Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns . S.l.: United Nations. Human Rights Council. The argument map is open for debate in AGORA-net, search for map ID 9206
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Einleitung: Semiotik in der Mathematikdidaktik. Lernen anhand von Zeichen und RepräsentationenJournal Für Mathematik-Didaktik 27 171-179. 2006.VG Wort 3740 Anschläge pro Seite
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1Skizze einer semiotischen Theorie des LernensJournal Für Mathematik-Didaktik 22 231-251. 2001.VG Wort 3740 Anschläge pro Seite
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321Problems with Peirce's concept of abductionFoundations of Science 4 (3): 271-305. 1999.Abductive reasoning takes place in forming``hypotheses'''' in order to explain ``facts.'''' Thus, theconcept of abduction promises an understanding ofcreativity in science and learning. It raises,however, also a lot of problems. Some of them will bediscussed in this paper. After analyzing thedifference between induction and abduction (1), Ishall discuss Peirce''s claim that there is a ``logic''''of abduction (2). The thesis is that this claim can beunderstood, if we make a clear distinction betw…Read more
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10This argument map presents Paul Loewi’s crucial experiment in which he showed that neural transmissions of signals are chemical in nature, not electrical, in form of an argumentation. The map can be used in science education to show how the formulation of hypotheses should be related to a corresponding determination of experimental designs
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Logical argument mapping: A method for overcoming cognitive problems of conflict managementInternational Journal of Conflict Management 16 304-334. 2005.A crucial problem of conflict management is that whatever happens in negotiations will be interpreted and framed by stakeholders based on their different belief-value systems and world views. This problem will be discussed in the first part of this article as the main cognitive problem of conflict management. The second part develops a general semiotic solution of this problem, based on Charles Peirce's concept of "diagrammatic reasoning." The basic idea is that by representing one 's thought in…Read more
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44The 1903 Classification of Triadic Sign-RelationsDigital Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce. 2001.
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Die Paradoxie des Lernens und ein semiotischer Ansatz zu ihrer AuflösungZeitschrift Für Semiotik 22. 2000.
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8This argument map represents the argumentation of Sparrow, R. . "Just say No" to Drones. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, M 1932-4529/12, 56-63. doi: 10.1109/MTS.2012.2185275. The argument map is open for debate in AGORA-net, search for map ID 9712
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57Climate ethics: Structuring deliberation by means of logical argument mappingJournal of Speculative Philosophy 25 (1): 64-97. 2011.One of the first things President Obama did after coming to office was the establishment of the Office of Public Engagement. As described on its Web site, this office "is the embodiment of the President's goal of making government inclusive, transparent, accountable and responsible." The Office of Public Engagement is supposed to "create and coordinate opportunities for direct dialogue between the Obama Administration and the American public, while bringing new voices to the table and ensuring t…Read more
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Peirces Philosophie der Wissenschaft, Logik und Erkenntnistheorie. Neuere Publikationen und Editionen.(1. Teil)Philosophische Rundschau 51 (3): 193-211. 2004.Review of about ten books relating to Peirce's philosophy of science, of mathematics, and his logics
Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München
Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Study of Religion
PhD, 1993
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Applied Ethics |
General Philosophy of Science |