Introduction
  • Who Am I? (if you like to know)
  • Course Introduction - Imagine If No One Used The Same Terms For Any Things
  • A Concept Map of Udemy and General Applications Areas Of Concept Mapping
  • Introduction Quiz
  • Course Goals And Organisation
  • Two Ways To Complete The Course - Theory First or Practice First
The Cognitive Foundation Of Concept Mapping
  • Introduction To The Cognitive Foundation Of Concept Mapping
  • We Have Three Memory Systems In Our Brains
  • Semantic Memory And Knowledge Persistence
  • Brains Love Visualizations!
  • How Does Creative Thinking Work?
  • Let's Eat Our Own Dog Food: A Concept Map Of The Cognitive Foundation
  • Cognitive Science Quiz
Philosophical foundations of conceptual analysis - introduction
  • The Whole Philosophy Section In Just One Lecture!
  • What Happens In A Room When We Visualize Our Concepts Together?
  • Ogden's Triangle - "This Fellow Isn't Insane; We Are Only Doing Philosophy"
  • Four Theories Of The Concept of Concept - How Hard Could It Be?
  • The Classical Theory About Concepts - How It All Began
  • The Prototype Theory About Concepts - Is A Dove More Of A Bird Than A Penguin?
  • The Theory Theory About Concepts - Is It Even Possible To Have The Same Concept?
  • A Pluralism About Concepts - Perhaps Many Theories Are Needed
  • Concept Quiz
  • Important! You Now Have Two Options On How To Proceed!
Philosophical Foundations Of Conceptual Analysis - Continued
  • The Intentionality Of The Mind - "My Adding Machine Understands Nothing"
  • Summary So Far - We Have Concepts In Intentional States In Our Minds!
  • The Network And The Background - "The Whole Hurly-Burly Of Human Actions"
  • Collective Intentionality - I Think That You Think That I Think That You Think..
  • Intentionality Quiz
  • Summary - First Corner - Concepts In Intentional States About Others' States
  • Language - Second Corner - Communicate Your Meaning
  • Terms and Propositions - The Signified and The Signifier
  • Generativity and Compositionality - The Key Mechanisms Of Any Language
  • Sentence Meaning Is Not Enough! "Yes I Can; I'd Just Use My Legs!"
  • "The King of France is Bald" Is False,But So Is "The King Of France is Not Bald"
  • The Indeterminacy Of Translation - "Lo! An Undetached Rabbit-Part!"
  • Language Quiz
  • Speech Acts - "Sorry, I Can't. My Mother-In-Law Won't Allow Me!"
  • Meaning Through Speech Acts - "There Is a Fluffy Mouse Catcher On The Mat"
  • Five Types Of Speech Acts - All You Need!
  • The Strange Thing About Declarations About Declarations - We Create Our World
  • Steven Pinker on - Language as a Window into Human Nature
  • Speech Act Quiz
  • Summary - Second Corner - We Refer To Concepts In Our Minds Using Speech Acts
  • The World Of Objects and Facts - Third Corner In The Triangle
  • The Ontological Nature Of Objects - Let's Get Deep!
  • Properties And Relations - "Being In Love" Is A Special Kind Of Relation
  • Objects and Properties Quiz
  • Facts And Truth - "The Cat Is Not On The Mat" Is Also A Fact
  • Social Facts - Objectively True Knowledge About Subjectively Relative Phenomena
  • Fact Quiz
  • Status Functions - A Rock, A Table And A President Are Very Different Things
  • Function Quiz
  • Summary - The Triangle In A New Light
Lessons Learned By Our Deeper Knowledge About How We Create Our World
  • Lessons Learned - Overview
  • Meaning Breakdown - Do They Agree And Do They Think They Agree?
  • Slow Knowledge Acquisition - There Is So Much Time To Save
  • Language Legacy - When Language Prevents Strategic Breakthroughs
  • Rigid Information Systems - Envision Your Future When Conceptualizing
  • Creative Leap Catalyst - See The Hidden Links No One Else Does
  • Early Customer Acceptance Of Language - Ground Your Language Collectively
  • Conclusions So Far - Visualization Of Concepts Eliminates Communication Waste!
Notation - The Boxes And Arrows And Their Semantics
  • What is a model? A Model And It's Subject
  • Domain Models - It's In the Eye Of The Beholder
  • What is a model more formally?
  • Model Quiz
  • The Unified Modeling Language - The Notation We Are Using In This Course
  • UML Classes and Instances - The "Boxes"
  • Classes and Instances Quiz
  • UML Associations - The "Lines"
  • UML Generalizations - "Those That Resemble Flies From A Distance"
  • Relationship Quiz
  • UML Packages - "Divide and Conquer"
Concept modeling workshop techniques - Perform An Outstanding Workshop
  • Introduction To Workshop And Facilitation
  • Workshop Preparation
  • Workshop Storytelling - Once Upon A Time...
  • Object Diagram Examples - Complexity Does Not Mean That It Is Wrong
  • Pattern Recognition - "That Would Be Shunting I Suppose"
  • Workshop Quiz
  • Conceptual Patterns - Do Not Reinvent The Wheel
  • Thing - Information Pattern - "I Do Not Store My Kid In A Database"
  • Party - Role Pattern - "Who Are You? It Depends Who Is Asking?"
  • Concepts and Processes - "The Concept Of Skies And Skiing Are Inseparable"
  • Finding The Generic-Specific Sweet-Spot
  • Exercise – Finding Flight Domain Concepts - It's Time For You To Enter The Stage
  • Flight Domain Example Solution - One Of Many Ways To Solve It
  • Modeling Quiz
  • Workshop Exercise - Homework For You To Do. Post Your Results In The Forum!
  • Diagram Composition - Watch How Easy It Is To Make Something Incomprehensible!
  • Diagram Composition Quiz
Package your concept model
  • Packaging Your Concept Model - Handle A Growing System
  • Guidelines When Packaging Your Model
  • Evaluation Of Package Organisation - A Fuzzy Logic Problem