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22Formal ontologies in biomedical knowledge representationIn M.-C. Jaulent, C. U. Lehmann & B. Séroussi (eds.), Yearbook of Medical Informatics 8, . pp. 132-146. 2013.Objectives: Medical decision support and other intelligent applications in the life sciences depend on increasing amounts of digital information. Knowledge bases as well as formal ontologies are being used to organize biomedical knowledge and data. However, these two kinds of artefacts are not always clearly distinguished. Whereas the popular RDF(S) standard provides an intuitive triple-based representation, it is semantically weak. Description logics based ontology languages like OWL-DL carry a…Read more
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643Aristotle's Theory of Dispositions From the Principle of Movement to the Unmoved MoverIn Gregor Damschen, Robert Schnepf & Karsten Stueber (eds.), Debating Dispositions. Issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, De Gruyter. pp. 24-46. 2009.No one influenced and shaped our thinking about dispositions and causal properties more than Aristotle. What he wrote about power (dynamis), nature (physis) and habit (hexis) has been read, systematised and criticised again and again during the history of philosophy. In this chapter I sketch Aristotle's thoughts about dispositions and argue that his theory can still be regarded as a good one.
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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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431Who has got our Group-Intentions?In Johann C. Marek & Maria E. Reicher (eds.), Erfahrung und Analyse. Beiträge des 27. Internationalen Wittgenstein-Symposiums, Ilwg. pp. 151-153. 2004.There are group-actions, and if actions are intentional, there should also be group-intentions. Who has got these intentions? The groups? This seems to be the natural answer. But then: Groups do not have a mind or brain of there own to form any mental attitude. Different kinds of individualistic analyses of group-intentions have been suggested in the literature. On the one hand there are suggestions to reduce group intentions to a complex of different Iattitudes. John Searle, on the other hand, …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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23Tun und Können erläutert und diskutiert den Gründungstext der Modalontologie: das neunte Buch der Metaphysik des Aristoteles. Aristoteles' Thesen und Argumente werden zum ersten Mal in Gänze mit formalen analytischen Mitteln rekonstruiert und auf ihre Kohärenz und Gültigkeit geprüft. Erstmals verwendet der Autor dazu eine adverbiale Analyse von Ausdrücken des Könnens und des Vermögens als Prädikatmodifikatoren. Das Buch zeigt, dass Aristoteles' Theorie der Vermögen nicht nur eine konsistente, so…Read more
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29Warum sich Artefakte ihrer Marginalisierung widersetzenDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 61 (2): 267-282. 2013.It is widespread practice to define artefacts as entities that owe their existence to plan-based acts of production that aim at a certain use of the produced thing. According to this definition, artefacts are essentially intention-dependent. For this reason, artefacts are threatened by marginalisation within standard naturalised ontologies. I discuss three families of marginalisation strategies: elimination, reduction and supervenience. I argue that all of these strategies fail, as they lead to …Read more
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500Sind nichtsequentielle mentale Aktivitäten möglich? Zu Kretzmanns und Stumps Verteidigung der Ewigkeitsdefinition des BoethiusIn Gerhard Leibold & Winfried Löffler (eds.), Vorträge des 5. Kongresses der ÖGP. Teil 2: Entwicklungslinien mittelalterlicher Philosophie, Hölder-pichler-tempsky. pp. 232-245. 1999.
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36Nikos Psarros, Katinka Schulte Ostermann (eds.), Facets of sociality (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (3): 323-324. 2009.
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5Friedemann Buddensiek, Die Einheit des Individuums (review)Grazer Philosophische Studien 82 (1). 2011.
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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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336Alles Schlußstrich?: Eine philosophische Auseinandersetzung mit Martin Walsers FriedenspreisredeTheologie Und Philosophie 80 (3): 412-22. 2005.This paper undertakes a philosophical analysis of the speech given by the German writer Martin Walser when the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade was awarded to him in 1998. I reconstruct Walser's infamous claims about the Holocaust and his critique against its presence in the media and discuss Walser's proclamation of a right for disregarding his claims about German normality and his views about private commemoration.
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547Christoph Rapp, Aristoteles, Rhetorik (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 329-333. 2004.
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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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271A method for re-engineering a thesaurus into an ontologyIn Maureen Donnelly & Giancarlo Guizzardi (eds.), Formal Ontology and Information Systems, Ios. pp. 133-146. 2012.The construction of complex ontologies can be facilitated by adapting existing vocabularies. There is little clarity and in fact little consensus as to what modifications of vocabularies are necessary in order to re-engineer them into ontologies. In this paper we present a method that provides clear steps to follow when re-engineering a thesaurus. The method makes use of top-level ontologies and was derived from the structural differences between thesauri and ontologies as well as from best prac…Read more
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301Jeffrey 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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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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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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376The 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
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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