“ All of us engage in and make use of valid reasoning, and in the process of reasoning human beings obtain information through many different kinds of media, including diagrams, maps, smells, sounds, as well as written or spoken statements.”
Sun-Joo Shin (2004)
I am Valeria Giardino, and I am currently Post doc at the University of Seville.
In the past years, I was Post doc at the Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS-EHESS-ENS), in Paris, France. [For more information about me and my previous works, you can check my website here].
In June 2008, I began working on my project “DBR – Diagram Based Reasoning”. The research was supported by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program ([FP7/2007-2013] under a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development, contract number N° 220686 – DBR (Diagram-based Reasoning).
I am editing this blog to present the topics I am interested in and those I have been working on in the course of the seminar I organized at the Institut Nicod. I thank all the participants for all the useful discussions we’ve had and we keep having on the topic of diagrammatic reasoning and of public representations.
I will be happy to get any feedback or comment from you if you are interested in this subject as well. I only ask you to write in English and to leave your name when you are posting a comment, so that all of us can keep track of the discussion.
Thanks.
Valeria Giardino.
There are several books and papers on this topic, as well as conference proceedings, related to attempts to give machines abilities to reason diagrammatically. Perhaps you should list the items you already know about so that people who know of something need to inform you about it. I have been writing about this intermittently for a long time, e.g. in a paper presented at IJCAI in 1971
Interactions between Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence: The role of intuition and non-logical reasoning in intelligence,
Aaron Sloman
Originally published in:
Proceedings IJCAI 1971,then in
Artificial Intelligence, vol 2, 1971,
then in J.M. Nicholas, ed. Images, Perception,
and Knowledge, Dordrecht-Holland: Reidel. 1977
Online here:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/papers.html#1971-02
This was later revised as Chapter 7 of The Computer Revolution in Philosophy (1978)
In my previous comment, this sentence “Perhaps you should list the items you already know about so that people who know of something need to inform you about it” should have been “Perhaps you should list the items you already know about so that people who know of something can tell whether they need to inform you about it.
Dear Aaron (if I may), thank you for the references. In my last entry, I listed some of the works that I have considered so far. I also updated the blog describing some of my more recent work (you can also download if you are curious the long abstract that was accepted in Leicester. if you want, I can also send you the slides – since you unfortunately were not there for my talk). Thank you once again!
Thank you for your suggestion. I have in fact to update this blog and insert more information about what I am doing and which literature I have already considered. So I will take up your suggestion and write the lists of works I know in the next entry.