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20Philosophische Anthropologie in der AntikeOntos. 2010.Was ist der Mensch? Das ist eine der "großen" philosophischen Fragen, und immer wieder werden bei der Beantwortung dieser Frage antike Denker zitiert. Das vorliegende Buch ist die erste Gesamtdarstellung des anthropologischen Denkens in der Antike. In fünfzehn Beiträgen behandelt der Band alle wichtigen antiken Philosophen und Philosophenschulen, von den Vorsokratikern bis zu Augustinus. Bewusst schaut der Band dabei über die Grenzen dessen hinaus, was wir heute "Philosophie" nennen, und wendet …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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19ONTOLOGY OF MUSIC GROUPS: Identity, Persistence, and Agency of Creative (edited book)Routledge. 2024.
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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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18Social Entities with and without Explicit EstablishmentIn Jenny Pelletier & Christian Rode (eds.), The Reality of the Social World: Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Ontology, Springer Verlag. pp. 139-157. 2023.Much work in social ontology analyzes how social entities are based on collective intentionality. A neglected perspective is, however, the distinction between those social entities that are explicitly established (often called formal institutions, like marriages), those that are established but not explicitly (informal institutions, like friendships), and those that are not established at all (social macro entities, like episodes of inflation). To shed more light on this trichotomy, a collection…Read more
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16Two concepts of therapeutic optimismJournal of Medical Ethics 37 (9): 563-566. 2011.Researchers and ethicists have long been concerned about the expectations for direct medical benefit expressed by participants in early phase clinical trials. Early work on the issue considered the possibility that participants misunderstand the purpose of clinical research or that they are misinformed about the prospects for medical benefit from these trials. Recently, however, attention has turned to the possibility that research participants are simply expressing optimism or hope about their …Read more
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16Modelling threshold phenomena in OWL: Metabolite concentrations as evidence for disordersIn Michel Dumontier & Melanie Courtot (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, . 2011.While genomic and proteomic information describe the overall cellular machinery available to an organism, the metabolic profile of an individual at a given time provides a canvas as to the current physiological state. Concentration levels of relevant metabolites vary under different conditions, in particular, in the presence or absence of different disorders. Metabolite concentrations thus mediate an important link between chemistry and biology, contributing to a systems-wide understanding of bi…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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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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14Definition und Evaluation einer Guideline zur Entwicklung von qualitativ guten OntologienGMDS 2013: 58. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie Und Epidemiologie E.V. (GMDS). Lübeck 1. 2013.Ontology engineering is mainly done by domain experts who are specialists in their domain but have, if at all, limited knowledge in logics, computer science, or analytic philosophy. The literature on formal ontologies and biomedical ontologies is neither suited nor intended to serve as an educational resource that would help domain experts to become good ontologists. Existing educational resources focus rather on ontology tools and languages than on good practice. The purpose of the GoodOD guide…Read more
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14Kategorien: Die top level OntologieIn Ludger Jansen & Barry Smith (eds.), Biomedizinische Ontologie. Wissen strukturieren für den Informatik-Einsatz, Vdf Hochschulverlag. pp. 85-112. 2008.
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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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13Analytische 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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12Four Rules for Classifying Social EntitiesIn Ruth Hagengruber (ed.), Philosophy’s Relevance for Information Science, . forthcoming.
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12Zur Ontologie sozialer ProzesseIn Stefan Jordan & Rainer Schützeichel (eds.), Prozesse. Formen, Dynamiken, Erklärungen, Springer. pp. 17-43. 2015.
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12Ontologies aim to represent what is general, by means of universal statements. In contrast, dispositional predications capture knowledge about what is likely to happen if a certain set of circumstances obtain, which is crucial in investigative research such as in drug discovery and systems biology, where entities which are constitutionally dissimilar can nevertheless have similar behavior in a biological context. While such dispositional properties are increasingly included in biomedical ontolog…Read more
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11Are there essential forms in the social domain?Ratio 36 (4): 306-318. 2023.Traditionally, nature has often been thought to be structured by essential forms providing the generic features of natural things and thus the foundations for scientific explanations. In contrast, human history and the social domain have been thought to be the realm of ever-changing appearances, where contingency prevails. The paper argues that the existence of essential forms is compatible with the contingent, mind-dependent and historical character of the social world, and that essential forms…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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9Rainer Koltermann (Hg.), Universum, Mensch, Gott. Der Mensch vor den Fragen der Zeit (review)Theologische Beiträge 29 290-291. 1998.
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9The Master Argument of Diodorus CronusIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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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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9Kazem Sadegh-Zadeh, Handbook of Analytic Philosophy of Medicine (review)Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. forthcoming.
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8Aristoteles’ Kategorie des Relativen zwischen Dialektik und OntologieHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 9 (1): 79-104. 2006.
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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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8The Ship of TheseusIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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8Chapter 8: Categories: The Top-Level OntologyIn Katherine Munn & Barry Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Ontos. pp. 173-196. 2008.
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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. 2009.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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7Andreas Diekmann/Thomas Voss (Hgg.), Rational-Choice-Theorie in den Sozialwissenschaften. Anwendungen und Probleme (review)Philosophisches Jahrbuch 116 (116): 230. 2009.
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7Niko Strobach: The Moment of Change. A Systematic History in the Philosophy of Space and TimeHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 4 (1): 205-211. 2001.
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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