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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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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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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.
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15Being 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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447Zeit und Gemeinschaft. Soziale Geschichtlichkeit und geschichtliche SozialitätIn Friedrich Stadler & Michael Stöltzner (eds.), Zeit Und Geschichte. Beiträge des 28. Internationalen Wittgenstein-SymPosiums, Ilwg. pp. 117-120. 2005.
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5Amin Maalouf, In the Name of Identity. Violence and the Need to Belong (review)MetaPsychology 6. 2002.
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467Lmn-2 interacts with Elf-2. On the meaning of common statements in biomedical literatureIn Stefan Schulz & Ludger Jansen (eds.), Lmn-2 interacts with Elf-2. On the meaning of common statements in biomedical literature, Md. pp. 37-45. 2006.Statements about the behavior of biological 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 is necessary to take into account in the practice of biomedical ontology engineering. Several concurring formalizations are proposed. Emphasis is la…Read more
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8Vernünftiger Rede fähig. Aristoteles über den MenschenIn Ludger Jansen & Christoph Jedan (eds.), Philosophische Anthropologie in der Antike, Ontos. pp. 157-184. 2010.This chapter summarizes Aristotle's teaching about human nature. It reviews passages about human beings from his treatises on logic, psychology, ethics, politics, and biology, and discusses his famous characterizations of man as a rational and political animal (zoon logon echon; zoon politikon). It is argued that while Aristotle insists on the distinctive methods and varying reliability of different disciplines, his teachings about human nature can integrate into a unified picture. The notorious…Read more
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306Are Aristotle's energeiai states or events?In Georg Meggle (ed.), Analyomen 2. ProCeeDings of the 2nd Conference „Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy", De Gruyter. pp. 369-375. 1997.In 'Metaphysics IX.6' (1048b 18-35) Aristotle presents a test to distinguish between "kinesis" and "energeia," based on relations between the perfective and the imperfective aspect of the verb. This passage has been interpreted as drawing a linguistic distinction between classes of verbs (e.g., stative verbs) by means of a linguistic criterion (Ackrill, Graham). But such an interpretation is in conflict with the text. Aristotle's test must, therefore, be understood as a metaphysical criterion be…Read more
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4KlassifikationenIn Ludger Jansen & Barry Smith (eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie: Wissen strukturieren für den Informatik-Einsatz, Vdf Hochschulverlag. pp. 67-83. 2008.It has long been a standard practice for the natural sciences to classify things. Thus, it is no wonder that, for two and a half millennia, philosophers have been reflecting on classifications, from Plato and Aristotle to contemporary philosophy of science. Some of the results of these reflections will be presented in this chapter. I will start by discussing a parody of a classification, namely: the purportedly ancient Chinese classification of animals described by Jorge Luis Borges. I will show…Read more
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898The Ontology of Tendencies and Medical Information SciencesIn Ingvar Johansson, Bertin Klein & Thomas Roth-Berghofer (eds.), WSPI 2006: Contributions to the Third International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics, . pp. 1-14. 2006.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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6The Moment of Change. A Systematic History in the Philosophy of Space and Time (review)History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 4. 2001.
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Grundriß der Geschichte der Philosophie. Philosophie der Antike, Bd. 3: Ältere Akademie. Aristoteles. Peripatos (review)Philosophisches Jahrbuch 113 428-430. 2006.
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10Rainer Koltermann (Hg.), Universum, Mensch, Gott. Der Mensch vor den Fragen der Zeit (review)Theologische Beiträge 29 290-291. 1998.
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403Die Wahrheit der Geschichte und die Tugenden des HistorikersZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 62 (4): 471-491. 2008.Zuweilen werden der Geschichtsschreibung der Wissenschaftscharakter und historischen Aussagen die Wahrheitsfähigkeit abgesprochen. Ich werde erstens zeigen, dass Aussagen über Vergangenes nicht nur wahrheitsfähig sind, sondern dass einige Aussagen über Vergangenes tatsächlich wahr sind. Zweitens argumentiere ich dafür, dass weder die Gebundenheit an Quellen und die Möglichkeit des Irrtums, noch die Zeit- und Standortgebundenheit historischer Aussagen und eine eventuelle Werthaltigkeit historisch…Read more
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550Dispositionen und ihre RealitätIn Christoph Halbig & Suhm Christian (eds.), Was ist wirklich? Neuere Beiträge zu philosophischen Realismusdebatten, Ontos. pp. 117-137. 2004.
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309On Ascribing DispositionsIn Max Kistler & Bruno Gnassounou (eds.), Dispositions and Causal Powers, Ashgate. pp. 161-177. 2007.
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702Aristotle’s CategoriesTopoi 26 (1): 153-158. 2007.Being an "untimely review", this paper reviews Aristotle's 'Categories' as if they were published today, in the era of computerised information, where categorisation becomes more and more essential for information retrieval. I suggest a systematic ordering of Aristotle's list of categories and argue that Aristotle's discussion of ontological dependency and his focus on concrete entities are still a source of new insight and can indeed be read as a contribution to the emerging field of applied on…Read more
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208Aristoteles und das Problem des Neuen: Wie kreativ sind Veränderungsprinzipien?In Günter Abel (ed.), Kreativität: XX. Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie, 26.-30. September 2005 in Berlin : Sektionsbeiträge, Universitätsverlag Der Tu Berlin. pp. 15-25. 2005.
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200Was ist Sozialontologie?In O. Neumaier, C. Sedmak & M. Zichy (eds.), Philosophische Perspektiven: Beitrã¤Ge Zum Vii. Internationalen Kongress der ÃGp, Ontos Verlag. pp. 279-284. 2005.
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6Aristoteles’ Kategorienschrift: Formalontologische Ressourcen für die BiologieIn Gottfried Heinemann & Rainer Timme (eds.), Aristoteles Und Die Heutige Biologie: Vergleichende Studien, Verlag Karl Alber. 2015.
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358Konstitution und Dauer sozialer KontinuantenIn Gerhard Schönrich & Pedro Schmechtig (eds.), Persistenz – Indexikalität – Zeiterfahrung, Ontos. pp. 103-128. 2011.The constituents of social entities (and of social continuants in particular) determine whether or not a social thing comes to be, persists and perishes. John Searle hints at two very different accounts for the persistence of social entities, a mere past related account and an acceptance theoretic account, whereas Margaret Gilbert's account is based on deontic entities like obligations or joint commitments. I demonstrate that Gilbert's account can also accommodate Searle's examples. While oblivi…Read more
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695Unity and Constitution of Social EntitiesIn Benedikt Schick, Edmund Runggaldier & Ludger Honnefelder (eds.), Unity and Time in Metaphysics, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 15-45. 2009.Is a bank note identical with the piece of paper of which it consists? On the one hand, John Searle, in his reply to Barry Smith, suggests that they are “one and the same object” that is a social or non-social object only under certain descriptions. On the other hand, Lynne Rudder Baker puts forward the claim that bank note and paper are distinct entities that are bound together by the relation of material constitution. I suggest two possible analyses for Searle’s description relativity claim, t…Read more
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15CELDA – an ontology for the comprehensive representation of cells in complex systemsBMC Bioinformatics 14. 2013.BACKGROUND The need for detailed description and modeling of cells drives the continuous generation of large and diverse datasets. Unfortunately, there exists no systematic and comprehensive way to organize these datasets and their information. CELDA (Cell: Expression, Localization, Development, Anatomy) is a novel ontology for the association of primary experimental data and derived knowledge to various types of cells of organisms. RESULTS CELDA is a structure that can help to categorize cell t…Read more
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318Institutionen und die kategoriale OntologieIn Gerhard Schönrich (ed.), Institutionen Und Ihre Ontologie, Ontos Verlag. pp. 45-57. 2005.
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267Sind Vermögensprädikationen Modalaussagen?In Ontologie der Modalitäten, . pp. 179-193. 2000.Aristoteles unterscheidet zwischen zwei Arten, das Wort „dynaton" zu gebrauchen. Die erste dieser beiden Verwendungsweisen dient zur Zuschreibung von Vermögen (dynaton kata dynamin), die zweite entspricht unserer Verwendung des logisch-alethischen Modaloperators „Es ist möglich, dass" (dynaton ou kata dynamin). Ich argumentiere dafür, dass wichtige Unterschiede zwischen Vermögensprädikationen und Modalaussagen bestehen. Ich nenne mehrere Gründe dafür, dass Vermögensprädikationen keine Modalaussa…Read more
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270Split-case arguments about personal identityIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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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
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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