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33Ontologies on the Semantic WebAnnual Review of Information Science and Technology 41 407-451. 2007.As an informational technology, the World Wide Web has enjoyed spectacular success. In just ten years it has transformed the way information is produced, stored, and shared in arenas as diverse as shopping, family photo albums, and high-level academic research. The “Semantic Web” was touted by its developers as equally revolutionary but has not yet achieved anything like the Web’s exponential uptake. This 17 000 word survey article explores why this might be so, from a perspective that bridges b…Read more
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26Review: Trevor Pearce, "Pragmatism’s Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy"Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 13 (2): 557-560. 2023.
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25Habits in Perception: A Diachronic Defense of HyperinferentialismIn Jeremy Dunham & Komarine Romdenh-Romluc (eds.), Habit and the History of Philosophy, Rewriting the History of Philosophy. pp. 243-260. 2022.This paper explores how Charles Peirce’s habit-based epistemology leads him to theorise perception. I show how Peirce’s triadic semiotic analysis of perceptual judgment renders his theory of perception neither a representationalism nor a relationism /direct realism, but an interesting hybrid of the two. His view is also extremely interesting, I argue, in the way that by analysing symbols as habits it refuses the common assumption that perception is an affair best understood synchronically, as a …Read more
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19Integrating Cyc and Wikipedia: Folksonomy meets rigorously defined common-senseProceedings of Wikipedia and AI Workshop at the AAAI-08 Conference. Chicago, US, July 12 2008. 2008.Integration of ontologies begins with establishing mappings between their concept entries. We map categories from the largest manually-built ontology, Cyc, onto Wikipedia articles describing corresponding concepts. Our method draws both on Wikipedia’s rich but chaotic hyperlink structure and Cyc’s carefully defined taxonomic and common-sense knowledge. On 9,333 manual alignments by one person, we achieve an F-measure of 90%; on 100 alignments by six human subjects the average agreement of the me…Read more
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3Alan Musgrave, Common Sense, Science and Scepticism: A Historical Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge Reviewed by (review)Philosophy in Review 14 (5): 336-339. 1994.
Deakin, Victoria, Australia
Areas of Interest
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Metaphilosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Meaning |
Truth |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Wilfrid Sellars |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |