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15Using ontologies to study cell transitionsIn M. Boeker, H. Herre, R. Hoehndorf & F. Loebe (eds.), OBML 2012. Workshop Proceedings. Dresden, September 27-28, . 2012.BACKGROUND Understanding, modelling and influencing the transition between different states of cells, be it reprogramming of somatic cells to pluripotency or trans-differentiation between cells, is a hot topic in current biomedical and cell-biological research. Nevertheless, the large body of published knowledge in this area is underused, as most results are only represented in natural language, impeding their finding, comparison, aggregation, and usage. Scientific understanding of the complex …Read more
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20OBJECTIVE: (a) To measure the effect of a guideline-based training on the performance of ontology developers compared with the performance after unspecific training by a competency question based evaluation; and (b) to provide empirical evidence for the applicability of competency questions in formal ontology evaluation in general. BACKGROUND: A close connection between ontology development and ontology evaluation as quality management procedure can been attained with the use of competency quest…Read more
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304Jeffrey S. Siker, Scripture and Ethics. Twentieth-Century Portraits (review)Zeitschrift für MediZiNische Ethik (45): 85-87. 1999.This is a review of Siker's book, evaluating the use of scripture and biblical references by important authors in theological ethics.
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391The master argument of Diodorus CronusIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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35Grains, Components and Mixtures in Biomedical OntologiesJournal of Biomedical Semantics 2 (4). 2011.BACKGROUND In biomedical ontologies, mereological relations have always been subject to special interest due to their high relevance in structural descriptions of anatomical entities, cells, and biomolecules. This paper investigates two important subrelations of has_proper_part, viz. the relation has_grain, which relates a collective entity to its multiply occurring uniform parts (e.g., water molecules in a portion of water), and the relation has_component, which relates a compound to its consti…Read more
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36Teaching Good Biomedical Ontology DesignIn Ronald Cornet & Robert Stevens (eds.), International Conference for Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2012), KR-MED Series, Graz, Austria July 21-25, 2012, . 2012.Background: In order to improve ontology quality, tool- and language-related tutorials are not sufficient. Care must be taken to provide optimized curricula for teaching the representational language in the context of a semantically rich upper level ontology. The constraints provided by rigid top and upper level models assure that the ontologies built are not only logically consistent but also adequately represent the domain of discourse and align to explicitly outlined ontological principles. …Read more
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25Dispositions, Laws, and Categories A Critical Study of E. J. Lowe’s The Four-Category OntologyMetaphysica 8 (2): 211-220. 2007.After a short sketch of Lowe's account of his four basic categories, I discuss his theory of formal ontological relations and how Lowe wants to account for dispositional predications. I argue that on the ontic level Lowe is a pan-categoricalist, while he is a language dualist and an exemplification dualist with regard to the dispositional/categorical distinction. I argue that Lowe does not present an adequate account of disposition. From an Aristotelian point of view, Lowe conflates dispositiona…Read more
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619Die Struktur der Substanz bei Thomas von AquinIn Gianluigi Segalerba, Antonella Lang-Balestra & Holger Gutschmidt (eds.), Substantia – Sic et Non. Eine Geschichte des Substanzbegriffs von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart in Einzelbeiträgen, Ontos. pp. 181-209. 2008.Starting from the early treatise "On Being and Essence", I review issues concerning substances composed of matter and form: their hylomorphic composition, individuation, essence as part and as whole, and the analogy between genus/difference and matter/form. Then I discuss substances separated from matter, which may range from human souls and angels (or intelligences) to God. I then turn to Aquinas's later 'Summa Theologica', where he argues that in the end God cannot possibly belong to the categ…Read more
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195Reinhold Esterbauer, Verlorene Zeit - wider eine Einheitswissenschaft von Natur und Gott (review)Theologische Beiträge 29 289-290. 1998.
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500Reading for the Good Life?In Angela Kallhoff (ed.), Martha C. Nussbaum: Ethics and Political Philosophy: Lecture and Colloquium in Münster 2000, Distributed in North America By Transaction Publishers. pp. 4--119. 2001.
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14Analytische SozialontologieDissertation, . 2010.This is my habilitation thesis that has now been published under the title "Gruppen und Institutionen. Eine Ontologie des Sozialen" with Springer VS.
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246Niko Strobach, The Moment of Change (review)Philosophiegeschichte Und Logische Analyse 4 205-211. 2001.This paper is a critical study of Strobach's (1998) monograph. I argue that Strobach's analysis of Aristotle's concept of the primary time of an event is to narrow and that it unnecessarily excludes activities (which Aristotle calls energeia as opposed to kinesis). Special attention is also given to Strobach's definition and use of his State-prefix and to the formalization of his concept of empirical limes.
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29What is a Formal Ontology? Some Meta-Ontological RemarksIn Klaus Mainzer (ed.), ECAP10. VIII European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, Hut. pp. 256-260. 2010.
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640Aristoteles’ Kategorie des Relativen zwischen Dialektik und OntologiePhilosophieGeschichte Und Logische Analyse 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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9Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh, Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine (review)Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. forthcoming.
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337Thomas von Aquin liest Maimonides. Eine argumentationstheoretische AnalyseKirche Und Israel 19. 2004.
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670Dispositions, Laws, and CategoriesMetaphysica 8 (2): 211-220. 2007.After a short sketch of Lowe’s account of his four basic categories, I discuss his theory of formal ontological relations and how Lowe wants to account for dispositional predications. I argue that on the ontic level Lowe is a pan-categoricalist, while he is a language dualist and an exemplification dualist with regard to the dispositional/categorical distinction. I argue that Lowe does not present an adequate account of disposition. From an Aristotelian point of view, Lowe conflates dispositiona…Read more
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300It’s Chicken and Eggs again: Vagueness, Quasi-Species, and EvolutionConceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 36 (89): 71-77. 2006.Wether the chicken or the egg came first, is not only a mind-boggling but a substantial question. Its answer depends on the biological background theory one assumes. I review recent work on the topic (by Teichmann, Sorensen, Waller and Raatzsch) and resolve some of the disputes between these authors by borrowing from Aristotle the distinction between chicken-producing eggs. I then introduce the concept of a quasi-species to make explicit the vagueness involved in species-terms and prove 13 diffe…Read more
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484Review: Identität und Gemeinschaft. Neuere Beiträge zur Ontologie des Sozialen (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 59 (3). 2005.
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26[Friedemann Buddensiek, Die Theorie des Glücks in Aristoteles’ Eudemischer Ethik] (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review (03.19). 2002.
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527Staatliche Toleranz und staatliche WertorientierungIn Starck Christian (ed.), Wo hört die Toleranz auf?, Wallstein. pp. 20-62. 2006.
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47Being a Community and Being in Community On Hans Bernhard Schmid’s study of we-intentionality (review)Metaphysica 8 (1): 101-109. 2007.
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417Planners, Deciders, Performers. Aristotelian Reflections on the Ontology of Agents and ActionsIn Edmund Runggaldier, Christian Kanzian & Josef Quitterer (eds.), Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Öbvhpt. pp. 208-215. 2003.
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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