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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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621Die 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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499Reading 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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647Aristoteles’ 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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340Thomas von Aquin liest Maimonides. Eine argumentationstheoretische AnalyseKirche Und Israel 19. 2004.
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678Dispositions, 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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301It’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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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