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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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199Konstruktion 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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338Ulf 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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195Johannes Hübner, Aristoteles über Getrenntheit und Ursächlichkeit (review)Philosophisches Jahrbuch (113): 187-190. 2006.
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561The Diachronic Identity of Social EntitiesIn Kanzian Christian (ed.), Persistence, Ontos. pp. 49-71. 2007.
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203Tendencies 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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33Representing 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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69Categories: The top-level ontologyIn Katherine Munn & Barry Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Ontos. pp. 173--196. 2008.
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456Die 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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19Formal 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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635Aristotle'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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234Moderne 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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419Who 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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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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22Tun 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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28Warum 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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487Sind 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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332Alles 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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543Christoph 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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267A 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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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
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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