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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Mapping the Singularity : A Diagrammatic Analysis of Kurzweil’s Singularity Argument and Some Objections

Areskog, Oskar January 2021 (has links)
Constructing and understanding arguments is often difficult but key to both philosophyand other parts of the everyday life. Some methods to ease this task has been developed.One of the methods developed within informal reasoning is argument diagramming, amethod to structure and visualize arguments. This essay takes a complicated argumentabout the fate of the universe, put forward by futurist Ray Kurzweil in his book TheSingularity is Near, as well as some critique published against said argument, as a casestudy for the application of argument diagramming on unstructured arguments fromoutside the field of philosophy. To arrive at a diagram that can be easily grasped andread but still contains all information of the original argument, this essay developsa method of splitting sub-diagrams off of a main diagram. Analysing the resultingdiagrams shows that the plausibility of Kurzweil’s argument is heavily dependent on afew, critical premises at the lower levels of the diagram.
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The Potential of Argument Mapping as a Tool for Teaching Critical Thinking in Secondary School / Potentialen av argument mapping som ett verktyg för att undervisa kritiskt tänkande i högstadiet

Lidåker, Tim January 2018 (has links)
With our modern deluge of information through social media, news and blogs, the importance of giving our children a better understanding of source criticism and critical thinking has become increasingly clear. In the field of critical thinking, the use of argument mapping software, a visual way of structuring arguments, has been shown to increase the understanding of arguments, and college students using the method score as much as three times higher on critical thinking tests.  This thesis presents a simplified digital argument mapping tool, developed in order to explore the feasibility of argument mapping for students in secondary school (aged 13-15). The tool is then tested on two secondary school classes. The thesis shows that the students are proficient at basic argument mapping with the tool, but also that the more complex facets of the method require more instruction in order to be used by the students. Recommendations are presented for further development of the argument mapping tool, as well as further studies of critical thinking using argument mapping in secondary school. The thesis has shown the argument mapping has potential for use in secondary school, and should be further studied. / Med vårt moderna överflöd av information genom sociala media, nyheter och bloggar, så ökar vikten av att ge våra unga en bättre förståelse för källkritik och kritiskt tänkande. I fältet kritiskt tänkande har en metod som kallas argument mapping, en visuell metod för att strukturera argument, visats öka förståelsen av argument, samt vid användning studenter i universitet har metoden ökat resultaten på test i kritiskt tänkande upp till tre gånger. Uppsatsen presenterar ett förenklat digitalt argument mapping-verktyg, utvecklat för att studera hur elever på högstadiet (13-15 år) kan använda sig av metoden, som sedan testas på två högstadieklasser. Resultatet visar att studenterna klarar av grundläggande argument mapping med verktyget, men att de mer komplexa delarna av metoden behöver vidare instruktion för att eleverna ska kunna förstå. Rekommendationer presenteras baserat på den data som samlats in, både för vidareutveckling av det designade verktyget, samt för framtida studier av kritiskt tänkande och argument mapping i högstadiet. Uppsatsen visar att argument mapping har potential för användning av högstadieelever, och bör därmed undersökas vidare.

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