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    Textmodellierung und Analyse von quasi-hierarchischen und varianten Liturgika des Mittelalters
    with Robert Klugseder
    Das Mittelalter 24 (1): 205-220. 2019.
    The Digital Humanities project ‘CANTUS NETWORK. Libri ordinarii of the Salzburg metropolitan province’ undertakes research around the liturgy and music of the churches and monasteries of the medieval ecclesiastical province of Salzburg. Key sources are the liturgical ‘prompt books’, called libri ordinarii, which include a short form of more or less the entire rite of a diocese or a monastery. The workflow of the project is set in an environment called GAMS, a humanities research data repository …Read more
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    Unity in the concept of function
    Conceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie (94): 91-106. 2009.
    This essay argues that neither the etiological nor the dispositional account of functions conforms to the actual practice by which functions are ascribed in biology. Philip Kitcher’s account, which unifies what is common to both accounts, is assessed against what biologists are actually doing when they ascribe functions. Two problems of Kitcher’s account are identified: it is too liberal and it tends to circularity, insofar as it presupposes teleological notions. Finally, an alternative account …Read more