There’s a distinction that my post tries (ever so subtly) to establish, between “mapping arguments” in the abstract, as a grand overarching goal, possibly augmented by intuitive claims such as “visualization clarifies thinking”, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, the ground-level work of mapping of a particular controversy, with a particular tool which appears adequate to the task. ISTM this community should be more interested in the latter, though observations made while mapping particular arguments can (and should) of course be used to improve the tools.
If you have an interest in the latter type of research, you might for instance want to take a look at the work of MACOSPOL, who now have an impressive looking list of mapped controversies. I’ve been talking to some of the people at Sciences Po working in that area.
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There’s a distinction that my post tries (ever so subtly) to establish, between “mapping arguments” in the abstract, as a grand overarching goal, possibly augmented by intuitive claims such as “visualization clarifies thinking”, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, the ground-level work of mapping of a particular controversy, with a particular tool which appears adequate to the task. ISTM this community should be more interested in the latter, though observations made while mapping particular arguments can (and should) of course be used to improve the tools.
If you have an interest in the latter type of research, you might for instance want to take a look at the work of MACOSPOL, who now have an impressive looking list of mapped controversies. I’ve been talking to some of the people at Sciences Po working in that area.