•  1229
    Dispositions, Laws, and Categories
    Metaphysica 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
  •  30
    Analytische Sozialontologie
    Dissertation, . 2010.
    This is my habilitation thesis that has now been published under the title "Gruppen und Institutionen. Eine Ontologie des Sozialen" with Springer VS.
  •  757
    Planners, Deciders, Performers. Aristotelian Reflections on the Ontology of Agents and Actions
    In Edmund Runggaldier, Christian Kanzian & Josef Quitterer (eds.), Persons: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Öbvhpt. pp. 208-215. 2003.
  •  926
    Die Wahrheit der Geschichte und die Tugenden des Historikers
    Zeitschrift 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
  •  1
    Larry Ackerman, The Identity Code (review)
    Metapsychology 11. 2007.
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    Ontological 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