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Temple of Athena Nike, by Callicrates, at Athens, Greece, -427. Photo by Howard Davis. © Howard Davis
 
 
Software for argumentation
Belvedere Belvedere helps build evidence maps and concept maps to support middle-school and high-school students in learning critical inquiry skills for everyday life and science.
Reason!Able Reason!Able is a software package for Windows. It helps build simple diagrams of complex reasoning for use in schools and universities to improve critical thinking skills.
Genie GeNIe is a development environment for building graphical decision-theoretic models running under Windows.
Links to Web Resources for Critical Thinking A collection of argument software, mind maps and causal diagrams.
Software for logic or logic teaching
Automated Reasoning Group Software Investigates the mathematical properties of non-classical logic.
Logic Software from CSLI A site for logic software such as Tarski's world and Turing's world, awarded the 1997 Educom Medal.
Logic Toolbox A collection of links to various software, representing aspects of formal logic.
Web resources
Critical Thinking on the Web A site dedicated to links to software, literature guides and other sites related to argument, informal logic and critical thinking.
Argumentation and Critical Thinking Tutorial A series of tests for making arguments and thinking critically focused on Classical Logic and Informal Fallacies.
The Diagrammatic Reasoning Site Links to research, on diagrammatic, spatial, and other visual representations.
Connections Web Site The Connections Web site is a functional resource for composition classes. Includes ideas about argumentation in hypertext.
Research and Argument: Tools for Teachers and Students A web site for teachers in research, argument and writing courses.
International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA) Society promoting research in argumentation theory and its professional and social applications.
Logic software and logic education Educational logic software with links to similar software and projects.
The Baker Street Connection The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Argument Clinic If you type in an argument, the site holder at the Philosophy Depart at the University of Colorado promises to examine it and let you know the results.
Stephen Downes's Guide to the Logical Fallacies A large collection of invalid inferences often used for irrational persuasion.
Topos Many links related to rhetoric, composition and professional writing.
Rhetoric and Composition Rhetoric and composition pages combining a modern and a classical perspective.
A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples Exactly what it says it is.
ephilosopher.com Ephilosopher is a web community dedicated to philosophical thinking.
The Dynamic Evidence Page by Peter Tillers A site relating to evidence in legal matters, particularly in relation to litigation.
Resources & Guidance in Science Writing A large collection of links on topics and online resources for science writing, with emphasis on the biological and medical sciences.
Erasmus Debating Society A major debating society in the Netherlands with many Dutch links.
The People's forum: Debate This area is for debate-style forums, discussions, and chats.
Debating net Discussion forum about the practice of debating.
Philosophy wiki Sophia's Dialectic, a community which focuses on making philosophical content more accessible through collaborative online essays and articles.
Periodicals
Argumentation Argumentation is an international and interdisciplinary journal devoted to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion.
Informal Logic A scholarly journal for theory and practice in reasoning and argumentation.
Great Debates
Materials for evolutionary debates A number of key historic papers relating to the development of evolution.
Facing the Challenge A course to equip Christians to understand our postmodern world and respond to it Biblically and effectively. Involves a response to Darwin's challenge.
Internet History of Science Sourcebook An overview of material on the Internet for use in science teaching. Includes much of the background of the Huxley-Wilberforce debate.
The Reluctant Messenger of Science and Religion A Syncretic View of Religious Tolerance attempts to reconcile science and the Christian Bible. Provides explanations of the multitude of religions, the apparent contradiction of reincarnation and resurrection and other mysteries some of us may have.
Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei Galileo's Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno à due nuove scienze, translated by Stillman Drake (annotated and condensed version)
The Galileo Project
Trial of Galileo Galilei Material covering the background of the Galileo trial of 1633, including the papal condemnation.
Galileo Galilei Personal background of Galileo with links to several works.
Institute and Museum of the History of Science of Florence, Italy The Multimedia Catalogue of the Florentine Institute over the room devoted to Galileo Galilei, including his telescopes, pendulum and middle finger.
Multicriteria Decisions  
 Decision Analysis Society The web site promotes the development and use of logical methods for the improvement of decision-making in public and private enterprise. Contains working papers and links to software packages.
   
Multi-criteria analysis manual Manual by J. Dodgson, M. Spackman, A. Pearman and L. Phillips, Multi-Criteria Analysis: A Manual. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 2001. Office of the Deputy Prime Ministerwebsite. (199 pages)
   
Journal of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis An international forum for the presentation and discussion of all aspects of research, application and evaluation of multi-criteria decision analysis. The Journal publishes material from a variety of disciplines and all schools of thought.
   
Group Decision and Negotiation This journal is devoted to research on group decision and negotiation processes including (1) computer group decision and negotiation support systems (GDNSS), (2) artificial intelligence and management science, (3) applied game theory, experiment and social choice, and (4) cognitive/behavioral sciences in group decision and negotiation.
   
Decisionarium Decisionarium is a site for interactive multicriteria decision support with tools for individual decision making as well as for group collaboration and negotiation.
   
 Joint Gains Joint Gains is a negotiation support software based on the Method of Improving Directions with a slide show, related research and a tutorial slideshow.
   
 DAS - IIASA Outcome of the Decision Analysis and Support at IIASA, concluded in 1999. Publications on empirical experiments and formal methods of Decision analysis.
   
Harvard Law School Research on Negotiation References to R&D projects and course materials at Harvard Law School.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Updated 2005-05-26
 
 
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