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25Functions, Malfunctioning, and Negative CausationIn Antonio Piccolomini D’Aragona, Martin Carrier, Roger Deulofeu, Axel Gelfert, Jens Harbecke, Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Lara Huber, Peter Hucklenbroich, Ludger Jansen, Elizaveta Kostrova, Keizo Matsubara, Anne Sophie Meincke, Andrea Reichenberger, Kian Salimkhani & Javier Suárez (eds.), Philosophy of Science: Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities, Springer Verlag. pp. 117-135. 2018.Functional explanations apply not only in cases of normal functioning, but also in the case of malfunctioning. According to a straightforward analysis, a bearer of the function to F is malfunctioning if and only if it does not F although it should do so. This makes malfunctions and malfunctionings analogous to negative causation and thus peculiarly problematic, because they seem to involve absent dispositions and absent processes. This analysis seems also to require that the function to F cannot…Read more
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27Philosophy 101 in the alexandrian school, fifth century ad - (m.) chase (trans.) Ammonius: Interpretation of Porphyry's introduction to Aristotle's five terms. Pp. VIII + 200. London and new York: Bloomsbury academic, 2020. Cased, £85. Isbn: 978-1-350-08922-8 (review)The Classical Review 70 (2): 360-362. 2020.
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81Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation (edited book)Routledge. 2021.Introducing formal causation / Ludger Jansen and Petter Sandstad -- Form, intention, information : from scholastic logic to artificial intelligence / Gyula Klima -- Formal causation : accidental and substantial / David S. Oderberg -- A non-hylomorphic account of formal causation / Petter Sandstad and Ludger Jansen -- Formal causes for powers theorists / Giacomo Giannini and Stephen Mumford -- Away with dispositional essences in trope theory / Jani Hakkarainen and Markku Keinänen -- Functional po…Read more
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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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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.
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51Functions and Kinds of Art Works and Other ArtifactsGrazer Philosophische Studien 96 (1): 1-18. 2019.Currently, there is not yet a full-fledged philosophical sub-discipline devoted to artifacts. In order to establish such a general philosophical discourse on artifacts, two topics are of special importance: artifact functionality and artifact categorization. Both are central to the question of what artifacts are in general and in particular. This introduction first presents the current state of the art in the debates on functions, both in general and in the domain of artifacts in particular. It …Read more
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51Philosophy of Science: Between the Natural Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2018.This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership. It groups carefully selected contributions into the four fields of I) philosophy of physics, II) philosophy of life sciences, III) philosophy of social sciences and values in science, and IV) philosophy of mathematics and formal modeling. Readers will discover research papers by Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Keizo Matsubara, Kian…Read more
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30Gruppen und Institutionen. Eine Ontologie des SozialenSpringer. 2016.Was ist das Sein des Sozialen? Was konstituiert die Existenz von Gruppen und Institutionen, ihre Identität und Dauer in der Zeit? Dieses Buch resümiert den aktuellen Diskussionsstand der Sozialontologie und argumentiert für eine Ontologie des Sozialen, die sowohl formellen als auch informellen Institutionen gerecht wird. Es schlägt dafür eine Synthese aus Positionen vor, die in der gegenwärtigen Diskussion mit den Namen von John Searle und Margaret Gilbert verbunden sind.
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308Die Unzulänglichkeit von Richard Swinburnes Versuch, die Existenz einer Seele modallogisch zu beweisenZeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 53 (2). 1999.Die Zeiten, in denen der Leib-Seele-Dualismus als Ansatz der Philosophie des Geistes durch ein herrschendes Dogma als diskussionsunwürdig galt, sind vorbei. Der Dualismus darf wieder diskutiert werden. Er muß diskutiert werden, wenn in diskussionswürdiger Strenge für ihn argumentiert wird – auch wenn das, wie sich zeigen wird, manchmal ein ziemlich technisches Geschäft ist. In diesem Sinne soll im folgenden Richard Swinburnes Versuch behandelt werden, die Existenz einer Seele und damit die Wahrh…Read more
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418We are no plural subjectProtoSociology 35 167-196. 2018.In "On Social Facts" (1989) and subsequent works, Margaret Gilbert has suggested a plural subject account of the semantics of ‘we’ that claims that a central or standard use of ‘we’ is to refer to an existing or anticipated plural subject. This contrasts with the more general approach to treat plural pronouns as expressions referring to certain pluralities. I argue that (i) the plural subject approach cannot account for certain syntactic phenomena and that (ii) the sense of intimacy, which Gilbe…Read more
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683In Silico Approaches and the Role of Ontologies in Aging ResearchRejuvenation Research 16 (6): 540-546. 2013.The 2013 Rostock Symposium on Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Aging Research was again dedicated to dissecting the aging process using in silico means. A particular focus was on ontologies, as these are a key technology to systematically integrate heterogeneous information about the aging process. Related topics were databases and data integration. Other talks tackled modeling issues and applications, the latter including talks focussed on marker development and cellular stress as well as …Read more
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50Peter van Inwagen: Materialism, Free Will and God (edited book)Springer. 2018.This book discusses the philosophy of influential contemporary philosopher Peter van Inwagen. Looking at perennial philosophical problems from a modern point of view, Peter van Inwagen’s philosophy masterfully combines positions that have been considered irreconcilable: incompatibilism concerning free will, materialism, organicism, theism and realism concerning fictional entities. As readers will discover, his arguments are witty, surprising and deep. The book includes Peter van Inwagen’s Münste…Read more
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306Permanent generic relatedness and silent changeIn Niels Grewe, Ludger Jansen & Barry Smith (eds.), Formal Ontology and Information Systems, Ceur, Vol. 1060. pp. 1-5. 2016.Given the assertion of a relation between two types, like: “Epidermis has part some Keratinocyte”, we define silent change as any kind of change of the instance-relata of the relation in question that does not change the truth-value of the respective type-level assertion. Such assertions are notoriously difficult to model in OWL 2. To address this problem, we distinguish different modes of type-level relatedness giving rise to this problem and describe a conservative extension to the BFO top-le…Read more
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48Potentialität als Grund von ModalitätDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 65 (3): 589-594. 2017.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 65 Heft: 3 Seiten: 589-594.
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31Constructed RealityIn Katharina Neges, Josef Mitterer, Sebastian Kletzl & Christian Kanzian (eds.), Realism - Relativism - Constructivism: Proceedings of the 38th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, De Gruyter. pp. 255-268. 2017.A popular argument goes thus: This is a construction, hence it is not real. Adding an appropriate adjective (social, mental, human, …) in front of “construction” or cognate terms like “(legal) fiction” yields a whole family of related arguments, all of which, or so I will argue, are fallacious. Contrary to popular opinion, these arguments fail both on the epistemic and the ontic sense of construction. Ontic constructions exist at least at one point in time, while epistemic constructions may well…Read more
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63A Plural Subject Approach to the Responsibilities of Groups and InstitutionsMidwest Studies in Philosophy 38 (1): 91-102. 2014.Margaret Gilbert has defended the claim that her plural subject theory can give a reasonable account of retrospective (or backward-looking) collective responsibility. On one occasion, publishing in this periodical, she writes that she deliberately left out the discussion of prospective (or forward-looking) collective responsibility, or the “responsibilities” of a collective. In the present paper, I want to show that plural subject theory, in fact, also allows accounting for prospective responsi…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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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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626Aristoteles’ 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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303Thomas von Aquin liest Maimonides. Eine argumentationstheoretische AnalyseKirche Und Israel 19. 2004.
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645Dispositions, 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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276It’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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513Staatliche Toleranz und staatliche WertorientierungIn Starck Christian (ed.), Wo hört die Toleranz auf?, Wallstein. pp. 20-62. 2006.
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472Review: 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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401Planners, Deciders, Performers. Aristotelian Reflections on the Ontology of Agents and ActionsIn Christian Kanzian, Josef Quitterer & Edmund Runggaldier (eds.), Persons. An Interdisciplinary Approach, Öbv & Hpt. pp. 208-215. 2003.
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47Being 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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446Statements 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
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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