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15ONTOLOGY OF MUSIC GROUPS: Identity, Persistence, and Agency of Creative (edited book)Routledge. 2024.
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12Definition und Evaluation einer Guideline zur Entwicklung von qualitativ guten OntologienGMDS 2013: 58. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie Und Epidemiologie E.V. (GMDS). Lübeck 1. 2013.Ontology engineering is mainly done by domain experts who are specialists in their domain but have, if at all, limited knowledge in logics, computer science, or analytic philosophy. The literature on formal ontologies and biomedical ontologies is neither suited nor intended to serve as an educational resource that would help domain experts to become good ontologists. Existing educational resources focus rather on ontology tools and languages than on good practice. The purpose of the GoodOD guide…Read more
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11Ontologies aim to represent what is general, by means of universal statements. In contrast, dispositional predications capture knowledge about what is likely to happen if a certain set of circumstances obtain, which is crucial in investigative research such as in drug discovery and systems biology, where entities which are constitutionally dissimilar can nevertheless have similar behavior in a biological context. While such dispositional properties are increasingly included in biomedical ontolog…Read more
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15Modelling threshold phenomena in OWL: Metabolite concentrations as evidence for disordersIn Michel Dumontier & Melanie Courtot (eds.), Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions, . 2011.While genomic and proteomic information describe the overall cellular machinery available to an organism, the metabolic profile of an individual at a given time provides a canvas as to the current physiological state. Concentration levels of relevant metabolites vary under different conditions, in particular, in the presence or absence of different disorders. Metabolite concentrations thus mediate an important link between chemistry and biology, contributing to a systems-wide understanding of bi…Read more
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154Responsibility versus Profit: The Motives of Food Firms for Healthy Product InnovationSustainability 12 (9): 2286. 2017.: Background: In responsible research and innovation (RRI), innovation is seen as a way in which humankind finds solutions for societal issues. However, studies on commercial innovation show that firms respond in a different manner and at a different speed to the same societal issue. This study investigates what role organizational motives play in the product innovation processes of firms when aiming for socially responsible outcomes. Methods: This multiple-case study investigates the motiv…Read more
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326Exploring Ethical Decision Making in Responsible Innovation: The case of innovations for healthy foodIn Blok V., Tempels T. H., Edwin Pietersma & Jansen L. (eds.), Responsible Innovation 3, Springer International Publishing. pp. 209-230. 2017.In order to strengthen RI in the private sector, it is imperative to understand how companies organise this process, where it takes place, and what considerations and motivations are central in the innovation process. In this chapter, the questions of whether and where normative considerations play a role in the innovation process, and whether dimensions of RI are present in the innovation process, are addressed. In order answer these research questions, a theoretical framework is developed base…Read more
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4Split‐Case Arguments about Personal IdentityIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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7The Ship of TheseusIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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8The Master Argument of Diodorus CronusIn Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone (eds.), Just the Arguments, Wiley‐blackwell. 2011-09-16.
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10Are there essential forms in the social domain?Ratio 36 (4): 306-318. 2023.Traditionally, nature has often been thought to be structured by essential forms providing the generic features of natural things and thus the foundations for scientific explanations. In contrast, human history and the social domain have been thought to be the realm of ever-changing appearances, where contingency prevails. The paper argues that the existence of essential forms is compatible with the contingent, mind-dependent and historical character of the social world, and that essential forms…Read more
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7Chapter 8: Categories: The Top-Level OntologyIn Katherine Munn & Barry Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Ontos. pp. 173-196. 2008.
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Chapter 7: ClassificationsIn Katherine Munn & Barry Smith (eds.), Applied Ontology: An Introduction, Ontos. pp. 159-172. 2008.
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6Artefact 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.
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1Institutionen in der kategorialen OntologieIn Gerhard Schönrich (ed.), Institutionen Und Ihre Ontologie, Ontos Verlag. pp. 45-58. 2005.
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5The Diachronic Identity of Social EntitiesIn Kanzian Christian (ed.), Persistence, Ontos. pp. 49-72. 2007.
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1Dispositionen und ihre RealitätIn Christoph Halbig & Christian Suhm (eds.), Was ist wirklich?: Neuere Beiträge zu Realismusdebatten in der Philosophie, De Gruyter. pp. 117-138. 2004.
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1Beyond the UltimateIn Christian Kanzian, Winfried Löffler & Josef Quitterer (eds.), The Ways Things Are: Studies in Ontology, Ontos. pp. 57-72. 2011.
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39Disambiguating Clinical Intentions: The Ethics of Palliative SedationJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 35 (1): 19-31. 2010.It is often claimed that the intentions of physicians are multiple, ambiguous, and uncertain—at least with respect to end-of-life care. This claim provides support for the conclusion that the principle of double effect is of little or no value as a guide to end-of-life pain management. This paper critically discusses this claim. It argues that proponents of the claim fail to distinguish two different senses of “intention,” and that, as a result, they are led to exaggerate the extent to which cli…Read more
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104HIV exceptionalism, CD4+ cell testing, and conscientious subversionJournal of Medical Ethics 31 (6): 322-326. 2005.In recent years, many states in the United States have passed legislation requiring laboratories to report the names of patients with low CD4 cell counts to their state Departments of Health. This name reporting is an integral part of the growing number of “HIV Reporting and Partner Notification Laws” which have emerged in response to recently revised guidelines suggested by the National Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Name reporting for patients with low CD4 cell counts allows for a more acc…Read more
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16Two concepts of therapeutic optimismJournal of Medical Ethics 37 (9): 563-566. 2011.Researchers and ethicists have long been concerned about the expectations for direct medical benefit expressed by participants in early phase clinical trials. Early work on the issue considered the possibility that participants misunderstand the purpose of clinical research or that they are misinformed about the prospects for medical benefit from these trials. Recently, however, attention has turned to the possibility that research participants are simply expressing optimism or hope about their …Read more
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47Between Beneficence and Justice: The Ethics of Stewardship in MedicineJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 38 (1): 50-63. 2013.In an era of rapidly rising health care costs, physicians and policymakers are searching for new and effective ways to contain health care spending without sacrificing the quality of services provided. These proposals are increasingly articulated in terms of an ethical duty of stewardship. The duty of stewardship in medicine, however, is not at present well understood, and it is frequently conflated with other duties. This article presents a critical analysis of the notion of stewardship, which …Read more
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15Social Entities with and without Explicit EstablishmentIn Jenny Pelletier & Christian Rode (eds.), The Reality of the Social World: Medieval, Early Modern, and Contemporary Perspectives on Social Ontology, Springer Verlag. pp. 139-157. 2023.Much work in social ontology analyzes how social entities are based on collective intentionality. A neglected perspective is, however, the distinction between those social entities that are explicitly established (often called formal institutions, like marriages), those that are established but not explicitly (informal institutions, like friendships), and those that are not established at all (social macro entities, like episodes of inflation). To shed more light on this trichotomy, a collection…Read more
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Introducing formal causationIn Ludger Jansen & Petter Sandstad (eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation, Routledge. 2021.
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A non-hylomorphic account of formal causationIn Ludger Jansen & Petter Sandstad (eds.), Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation, Routledge. 2021.
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Seele digital? Mind uploading, virtuelles Bewusstsein und christliche Auferstehungshoffnung (edited book)Verlag Friedrich Pustet. 2022.
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Kinds and ExplanationsIn Mirosław Szatkowski (ed.), E. J. Lowe and Ontology, Routledge. pp. 165-187. 2022.Sparrows fly because they are birds. This mushroom is poisonous because it is an Amanita muscaria. Pointing out the kind to which things belong explains many of their properties. Jonathan Lowe’s four-category ontology and his account of laws of nature provide a framework to account for the explanatory appeal of referring to kind membership. For Lowe, “Electron has Unit-negative charge” is a typical example for a law of nature: a kind universal characterized by a property universal. We present bo…Read more
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64Proving God without Dualism: Improving the Swinburne-Moreland Argument from ConsciousnessMetaphysica 22 (1): 75-87. 2021.With substance dualism and the existence of God, Swinburne (2004, The Existence of God, Oxford University Press, Oxford) and Moreland (2010, Consciousness and the Existence of God, Routledge, New York) have argued for a very powerful explanatory mechanism that can readily explain several philosophical problems related to consciousness. However, their positions come with presuppositions and ontological commitments which many are not prepared to share. The aim of this paper is to improve on the Sw…Read more
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64Calculus CL as a Formal SystemIn Ahti Veikko Pietarinen, Peter Chapman, Leonie Bosveld-de Smet, Valeria Giardino, James Corter & Sven Linker (eds.), Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12169. 2020., . pp. 445-460. 2020.In recent years CL diagrams inspired by Lange’s Cubus Logicus have been used in various contexts of diagrammatic reasoning. However, whether CL diagrams can also be used as a formal system seemed questionable. We present a CL diagram as a formal system, which is a fragment of propositional logic. Syntax and semantics are presented separately and a variant of bitstring semantics is applied to prove soundness and completeness of the system.
Ludger Jansen
PTH Brixen College
Universität Rostock
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PTH Brixen CollegeProfessor
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