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5Functions, roles and dispositions revisited. A new classification of realizablesIn M. Boeker, H. Herre, R. Hoehndorf & F. Loebe (eds.), OBML 2012. Workshop Proceedings. Dresden, September 27-28, . 2012.The concept of a function is central both to biology and to technology. But there is an intricate debate how functions as well as related entities like dispositions and roles are to be represented in top level ontologies and how they are to be related. We review important philosophical accounts and ontological models for functions and roles and discuss three models for the relation of functions and dispositions. We conclude that mainly because of the need to account for ma…Read more
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258Biomedizinische Ontologie: Wissen strukturieren für den Informatik-Einsatz (edited book)Vdf Hochschulverlag. 2008.Dieses Buch betritt Neuland. Es ist eine Einführung in das neue Gebiet der angewandten Ontologie, jenem multidisziplinären Arbeitsgebiet, in dem Philosophen gemeinsam mit Informatikern und Vertretern der jeweils thematischen Wissenschaftsbereiche, in unserem Fall mit Biologen und Medizinern, daran arbeiten, wissenschaftliches Wissen informationstechnisch zu repräsentieren. Es zeigt, wie Philosophie eine praktische Anwendung findet, die von zunehmender Wichtigkeit nicht nur in den heutigen Lebens…Read more
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361Personen im PluralIn Michael Kober (ed.), Soziales Handeln. Beiträge zu einer Philosophie der 1. Person Plural, Humboldt-studienzentrum. pp. 27-42. 2005.Es gibt Staaten und Fußballmannschaften, Fakultäten und Punkbands. Und mansollte meinen, daß diese Entitäten etwas gemeinsam haben, daß sie zu ein und derselben ontologischen Kategorie gehören. Und daß sie sich unterscheiden von Elektronen, Tischen, Grizzlybären, einem Zehn-Euro-Schein, dem neuen Präsidenten, der Amtseinführung des neuen Präsidenten und der Tatsache, daß ich einen Vortrag halte. Mein Ziel ist es, zu zeigen, daß die Kategorie, die alle Beispiele der ersten Gruppe umfaßt, aber kei…Read more
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10Ontological realism is a philosophical stance that provides a definitional framework for ontologies and is referred to by various applied ontologists. From a computer science perspective, ontologies are often associated with formal languages for the representation of ontologies like the Web Ontology Language (OWL). It has, however, not been made explicit how the realist framework is related to the representation formalism. We analyse how the representational units of OWL can be used for modellin…Read more
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196A messy world? No limit for science!In Matthias Paul (ed.), Nancy Cartwright: Laws, Capacities and Science, Lit-verlag. pp. 62-66. 1999.
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516Molecular Interactions. On the Ambiguity of Ordinary Statements in Biomedical LiteratureApplied ontology (4): 21-34. 2009.Statements about the behavior of biochemical entities (e.g., about the interaction between two proteins) abound in the literature on molecular biology and are increasingly becoming the targets of information extraction and text mining techniques. We show that an accurate analysis of the semantics of such statements reveals a number of ambiguities that have to be taken into account in the practice of biomedical ontology engineering: Such statements can not only be understood as event reporting st…Read more
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675Taking Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of the prologue of St John's gospel (in his Lectura super loannem Evangelium) as example, I first discuss eight differences between medieval biblical interpretation and modern exegesis, especially Aquinas's frequent use of philosophical opinions in interpreting the Bible, taken mostly from Aristotle. Second, I account for these differences by reconstructing Aquinas's hermeneutics, hinging, as is shown, upon the assumption that scripture was authored by God …Read more
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242Attribuer des dispositionsIn Kistler Max & Gnassounou Bruno (eds.), Les Dispositions en philosophie et en sciences, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 89-106. 2007.
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604The so-called materially valid inferences and the logic of conceptsIn Foundations of The Formal Sciences II. Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics [Trends in Logic], Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 113-118. 2003.The so-called materially valid inferences have come to new prominence through the work of Robert Brandom. This paper introduces a fragment of a logic of concepts that does not reduce concepts to their extensions. Concept logic and ist semantics allow us to represent the conceptual knowledge used in material inferences and thus suggests a way to deal with them.
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554The ship of TheseusIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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28Gern helf’ ich dem Freunde? Pflichten in informellen SozialbeziehungenIn Karl Mertens & Jörn Müller (eds.), Die Dimension des Sozialen: Neue Philosophische Zugänge Zu Fühlen, Wollen Und Handeln, De Gruyter. pp. 333-350. 2014.
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202Drei wirtschaftliche Funktionen der Philosophie als WissenschaftIn Rainer Born & Otto Neumeier (eds.), Philosophie – Wissenschaft – Wirtschaft. Miteinander denken – voneinander lernen, Öbv & Hpt. pp. 707-712. 2001.
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183Stephen Mumford, Dispositions (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 55 307-310. 2000.
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9Aristoteles’ Kategorie des Relativen zwischen Dialektik und OntologieHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 9. 2006.Like the doctrine of the categories in general, Aristotle’s category of the relative fulfils disparate functions: On the one hand, the category of the pros ti fulfils a dialectic or logical function that aims at the avoidance of fallacies. On the other hand, the category respects the peculiar mode of being of the relative. Taking these two different functions into consideration helps with the interpretation of Aristotle’s two definitions of the relative and his treatment of the properties of the…Read more
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8Beyond the Ultimate. Methodological Atomism, Methodological Holism, and ExplanationsIn Christian Kanzian, Winfried Löffler & Josef Quitterer (eds.), The Ways Things Are: Studies in Ontology, Ontos. pp. 57-71. 2011.
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22Proposed actions are no actions: Re-modelling an ontology design pattern with a realist top-level ontologyJournal of Biomedical Semantics 3 (2). 2012.Background Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) are representational artifacts devised to offer solutions for recurring ontology design problems. They promise to enhance the ontology building process in terms of flexibility, re-usability and expansion, and to make the result of ontology engineering more predictable. In this paper, we analyze ODP repositories and investigate their relation with upper-level ontologies. In particular, we compare the BioTop upper ontology to the Action ODP from the NeOn …Read more
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282We, They, You. Persons in the PluralIn Roland Bluhm & Christian Nimtz (eds.), Selected Papers Contributed to the Sections of GAP.5, Mentis. pp. 471-491. 2004.
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13Artefact Kinds Need Not Be Kinds of ArtefactsIn Christer Svennerlind, Almäng Jan & Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (eds.), Johanssonian Investigations: Essays in Honour of Ingvar Johansson on His Seventieth Birthday, Ontos Verlag. pp. 317-337. 2013.This paper questions the widespread supposition that artifact kinds are kinds of artifacts. I will argue that this supposition rests on a one-sided diet of examples taken from inanimate physical things and the neglect of social and biological artifacts. I will argue that belonging to an artifact kind and being an artifact are independent Features: The first divides off artifacts from non-artifacts, the second rests on the distinction between instances of artifacts kinds and instances of natural …Read more
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232Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Radikalen KonstruktivismusIn Winfired Loeffler & Paul Weingarten (eds.), Wissen und Glauben. Beiträge des 26. Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums, Ilwg. pp. 154-157. 2003.
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367Ulf Hedetoft, Mette Hjort (Hgg.), The Postnational Self. Belonging and Identity (review)MetaPsychology 7. 2004.
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19BACKGROUND The importance of ontologies in the biomedical domain is generally recognized. However, their quality is often too poor for large-scale use in critical applications, at least partially due to insufficient training of ontology developers. OBJECTIVE To show the efficacy of guideline-based ontology development training on the performance of ontology developers. The hypothesis was that students who received training on top-level ontologies and design patterns perform better than those who…Read more
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208Johannes Hübner, Aristoteles über Getrenntheit und Ursächlichkeit (review)Philosophisches Jahrbuch (113): 187-190. 2006.
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587The Diachronic Identity of Social EntitiesIn Kanzian Christian (ed.), Persistence, Ontos. pp. 49-71. 2007.
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204Tendencies and Other Realizables in Medical Information SciencesThe Monist 90 (4): 534-554. 2007.In order to develop the ontology of tendencies for use in the representation of medical knowledge, tendencies are compared with other kinds of entities possessing the realizable-realization structure, specifically: dispositions, propensities, abilities and virtues. The peculiarities of tendencies are discussed and a standard schema of tendency ascription is developed in order to represent the relations between the ascriptions of tendency tokens to particulars and the ascriptions of tendency type…Read more
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12Four Rules for Classifying Social EntitiesIn Ruth Hagengruber (ed.), Philosophy’s Relevance for Information Science, . forthcoming.
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70Categories: The top-level ontologyIn Katherine Munn & Barry Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Ontos. pp. 173--196. 2008.
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488Die Ontologie des GeschlechtsIn Hella Ehlers, Beate Rudlof, Heike Trappe, Gabriele Linke & Heike Kahlert (eds.), Geschlechterdifferenz – und kein Ende? Sozial- und geisteswissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Genderforschung, Lit-verlag. pp. 19-39. 2009.
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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