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10Ontology Summit 2021 Communiqué: Ontology generation and harmonizationApplied ontology 17 (2): 233-248. 2022.Advances in machine learning and the development of very large knowledge graphs have accompanied a proliferation of ontologies of many types and for many purposes. These ontologies are commonly developed independently, and as a result, it can be difficult to communicate about and between them. To address this difficulty of communication, ontologies and the communities they serve must agree on how their respective terminologies and formalizations relate to each other. The process of coming into a…Read more
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18Ontology summit 2020 communiqué: Knowledge graphsApplied ontology 16 (2): 229-247. 2021.An increasing amount of data is now available from public and private sources. Furthermore, the types, formats, and number of sources of data are also increasing. Techniques for extracting, storing, processing, and analyzing such data have been developed in the last few years for managing this bewildering variety based on a structure called a knowledge graph. Industry has devoted a great deal of effort to the development of knowledge graphs, and knowledge graphs are now critical to the functions…Read more
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12Eristic Combat at Euthydemus 285e–286bAustralasian Philosophical Review 3 (2): 167-175. 2019.ABSTRACT M.M. McCabe argues that in Plato’s Euthydemus, Dionysodorus and Euthydemus hold a view she calls ‘chopped logos’. Chopped logos implies that nothing said is false, or opposed to any other statement, or entailed by any other statement. We focus on a key piece of evidence for chopped logos, the argument concluding that there is no such thing as contradiction (285e9–286b6), and defend a competing interpretation. The argument in question, and the eristic exchanges as a whole, are simply exa…Read more
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30Virtue and self-interest in xenophon’s memorabilia 3.9.4–5Classical Quarterly 68 (1): 79-90. 2018.Are people at bottom motivated entirely by self-interest? Or do they act only sometimes out of self-interest, and sometimes for other reasons—say, to help out a friend for her own sake, with no expectation of being benefitted in return? Scholars have often thought they could discern in the works of classical Greek thinkers a commitment to psychological egoism, the thesis that one is motivated to act only by considerations of the expected benefits and harms that will accrue to oneself. For instan…Read more
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29Plato’s Moral Psychology: Intellectualism, the Divided Soul, and the Desire for Good by Rachana KamtekarJournal of the History of Philosophy 57 (1): 160-161. 2019.This bold and wide-ranging study aims to revise a common picture of Plato’s thinking about human motivation. Kamtekar identifies the picture as one whereby Plato’s Socrates initially embraces intellectualism because he holds that an agent is motivated only by rational considerations based on her own good, and rejects that standpoint in the Republic with the doctrine of the tripartite soul. Kamtekar argues instead that, for Socrates, “human beings have a natural desire for our own good,” and that…Read more
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38(F.A.) Grabowski Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms. Pp. xii + 163. London and New York: Continuum, 2008. Cased, £65. ISBN: 978-0-8264-9780-2 (review)The Classical Review 59 (2): 627-628. 2009.
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28Ontology Summit 2017 communiqué – AI, learning, reasoning and ontologiesApplied ontology 13 (1): 3-18. 2018.
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28Ontology Summit 2017 communiqué – AI, learning, reasoning and ontologiesApplied ontology 1-16. forthcoming.
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60Two Annotated Bibliographies on the Presocratics (review)Ancient Philosophy 15 (2): 471-494. 1995.
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1The Philosophical Origins of Plato's Theory of FormsDissertation, The University of Texas at Austin. 2001.The dissertation analyzes the ontological and epistemological arguments that motivate Plato's theory of Forms. ;The first chapter explains how the word 'ontology' will be used and, in so doing, compares two ways of determining ontological commitments. ;The second chapter argues that Plato subscribes to the first of those two ways. For at 95E--103C of Plato's Phaedo, the theory of Forms is introduced in a context that is best interpreted as embodying a concern with ontological explanation. Schola…Read more
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53Commentary On FineProceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium of Ancient Philosophy 28 (1): 147-157. 2013.In discussing Gail Fine’s contribution, Sharma challenges the idea that the pseudo-Platonic Sisyphus can productively be interpreted using the philosophical devices of Plato’s Meno. Sharma then explores another approach to the Sisyphus, which involves reading the dialogue as an attack on the tendency to assimilate deliberation to theoretical inquiry and, relatedly, as an attempt to call attention to the practical skills that are uniquely involved in deliberation. Sharma ends by speculating that …Read more
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3Socrates' New Aitia: Causal and Metaphysical Explanations in Plato's PhaedoOxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 36 137-178. 2009.
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35The Anatomy of an Illusion: On Plato's Purported Commitment to Self-PredicationApeiron 40 (2): 159-198. 2007.
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6What is Aristotle's 'Third Man' Argument Against the Forms?Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 28 123-160. 2005.
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