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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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672Taking Thomas Aquinas's interpretation of the prologue of St John's gospel (in his Lectura super loannem Evangelium) as example, I first discuss eight differences between medieval biblical interpretation and modern exegesis, especially Aquinas's frequent use of philosophical opinions in interpreting the Bible, taken mostly from Aristotle. Second, I account for these differences by reconstructing Aquinas's hermeneutics, hinging, as is shown, upon the assumption that scripture was authored by God …Read more
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234Attribuer des dispositionsIn Kistler Max & Gnassounou Bruno (eds.), Les Dispositions en philosophie et en sciences, Presses Universitaires De France. pp. 89-106. 2007.
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544The ship of TheseusIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2011.
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597The so-called materially valid inferences and the logic of conceptsIn Foundations of The Formal Sciences II. Applications of Mathematical Logic in Philosophy and Linguistics [Trends in Logic], Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 113-118. 2003.The so-called materially valid inferences have come to new prominence through the work of Robert Brandom. This paper introduces a fragment of a logic of concepts that does not reduce concepts to their extensions. Concept logic and ist semantics allow us to represent the conceptual knowledge used in material inferences and thus suggests a way to deal with them.
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25Gern helf’ ich dem Freunde? Pflichten in informellen SozialbeziehungenIn Karl Mertens & Jörn Müller (eds.), Die Dimension des Sozialen: Neue Philosophische Zugänge Zu Fühlen, Wollen Und Handeln, De Gruyter. pp. 333-350. 2014.
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201Drei wirtschaftliche Funktionen der Philosophie als WissenschaftIn Rainer Born & Otto Neumeier (eds.), Philosophie – Wissenschaft – Wirtschaft. Miteinander denken – voneinander lernen, Öbv & Hpt. pp. 707-712. 2001.
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180Stephen Mumford, Dispositions (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 55 307-310. 2000.
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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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22Proposed actions are no actions: Re-modelling an ontology design pattern with a realist top-level ontologyJournal of Biomedical Semantics 3 (2). 2012.Background Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) are representational artifacts devised to offer solutions for recurring ontology design problems. They promise to enhance the ontology building process in terms of flexibility, re-usability and expansion, and to make the result of ontology engineering more predictable. In this paper, we analyze ODP repositories and investigate their relation with upper-level ontologies. In particular, we compare the BioTop upper ontology to the Action ODP from the NeOn …Read more
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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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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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223Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Radikalen KonstruktivismusIn Winfired Loeffler & Paul Weingarten (eds.), Wissen und Glauben. Beiträge des 26. Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums, Ilwg. pp. 154-157. 2003.
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272We, They, You. Persons in the PluralIn Roland Bluhm & Christian Nimtz (eds.), Selected Papers Contributed to the Sections of GAP.5, Mentis. pp. 471-491. 2004.
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207Johannes Hübner, Aristoteles über Getrenntheit und Ursächlichkeit (review)Philosophisches Jahrbuch (113): 187-190. 2006.
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362Ulf Hedetoft, Mette Hjort (Hgg.), The Postnational Self. Belonging and Identity (review)MetaPsychology 7. 2004.
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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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204Tendencies and Other Realizables in Medical Information SciencesThe Monist 90 (4): 534-554. 2007.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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12Four Rules for Classifying Social EntitiesIn Ruth Hagengruber (ed.), Philosophy’s Relevance for Information Science, . forthcoming.
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577The Diachronic Identity of Social EntitiesIn Kanzian Christian (ed.), Persistence, Ontos. pp. 49-71. 2007.
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481Die Ontologie des GeschlechtsIn Hella Ehlers, Beate Rudlof, Heike Trappe, Gabriele Linke & Heike Kahlert (eds.), Geschlechterdifferenz – und kein Ende? Sozial- und geisteswissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Genderforschung, Lit-verlag. pp. 19-39. 2009.
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34Representing DispositionsJournal of Biomedical Semantics 2 (4). 2011.Dispositions and tendencies feature significantly in the biomedical domain and therefore in representations of knowledge of that domain. They are not only important for specific applications like an infectious disease ontology, but also as part of a general strategy for modelling knowledge about molecular interactions. But the task of representing dispositions in some formal ontological systems is fraught with several problems, which are partly due to the fact that Description Logics can only de…Read more
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70Categories: The top-level ontologyIn Katherine Munn & Barry Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Ontos. pp. 173--196. 2008.
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650Aristotle'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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244Moderne Moral?In Marcus Willashek (ed.), Ernst Tugendhat: Moralbegründung und Gerechtigkeit,, Lit-verlag. pp. 55-61. 1997.This paper discusses Tugendhat's project of a "modern ethics" (moderne Moral) in contrast to "traditional ethics" (traditionelle Moral). We argue that this distinction is not as clear cut as Tugendhat would like it to be, and that Tugendhat's modern ethics shares important features with traditional ethics.
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23Formal 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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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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432Who 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
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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