Philosophy of Sciene (21)

Since I was on a conference on group decision and negotiation in Delft (Netherlands), I came across interesting information about advanced decision support software, a so called decision explorer. It seems really interesting to me because it is comparable to our prototype that we proposed in Philosophy of Science. Like the objective of our decision map, the decision explorer helps you to organize your thinking by capturing ideas and the relationships between them, making the interdependencies explicit. Nevertheless our approach seems to be better, since we make a distinction between a qualitative and a quantitative way :-).

It makes really sense that people maximize pleasures and minimize pain which is a kind of a rational behavior. In the proposed prototype - decision map (qualitative) and decision support tool (quantitative) - the values of the decision maker are classified into the long-term “goal-oriented” and the short-term “pleasure-oriented”. This approach seems to be a helpful tool in order to visualize daily life decisions, as every man is the architect of his own fortune :-).