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BFO: Basic Formal OntologyApplied ontology 17 (1): 17-43. 2022.Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level ontology consisting of thirty-six classes, designed to support information integration, retrieval, and analysis across all domains of scientific investigation, presently employed in over 350 ontology projects around the world. BFO is a genuine top-level ontology, containing no terms particular to material domains, such as physics, medicine, or psychology. In this paper, we demonstrate how a series of cases illustrating common types of change may be repr…Read more
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Names and natural kind termsIn Ernie Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 490--515. 2005.Names and natural kind terms have long been a major focus of debates about meaning and reference. This article discusses some of the theories and arguments that have appeared in those debates. It is remarkably difficult to say what names are without making controversial theoretical assumptions. This article does not attempt to do so here. It instead relies on paradigm examples that nearly all theorists would agree are proper names, for instance, ‘Aristotle’, ‘Mark Twain’, ‘London’, ‘Venus’, and …Read more
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Natural Language Processing and Semantic Network Visualization for PhilosophersIn Eugen Fischer & Mark Curtis (eds.), Methodological Advances in Experimental Philosophy, Bloomsbury Press. 2019.Progress in philosophy is difficult to achieve because our methods are evidentially and rhetorically weak. In the last two decades, experimental philosophers have begun to employ the methods of the social sciences to address philosophical questions. However, the adequacy of these methods has been called into question by repeated failures of replication. Experimental philosophers need to incorporate more robust methods to achieve a multi-modal perspective. In this chapter, we describe and showcas…Read more
J. Neil Otte
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
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Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratoryOther
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Johns Hopkins UniversityLecturer (Part-time)
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