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723Ontology of language, with applications to demographic dataApplied ontology 18 (3): 239-262. 2023.Here we present what we believe is a novel account of what languages are, along with an axiomatically rich representation of languages and language-related data that is based on this account. We propose an account of languages as aggregates of dispositions distributed across aggregates of persons, and in doing so we address linguistic competences and the processes that realize them. This paves the way for representing additional types of language-related entities. Like demographic data of other …Read more
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183Embodied mind sparsismPhilosophical Studies 173 (7): 1853-1872. 2015.If we are physical things with parts, then accounts of what we are and accounts of when composition occurs have important implications for one another. Defenders of restricted composition tend to endorse a sparse ontology in taking an eliminativist stance toward composite objects that are not organisms, while claiming that we are organisms. However, these arguments do not entail that we are organisms, for they rely on the premise that we are organisms. Thus, sparsist reasoning need not be paired…Read more
S. Clint Dowland
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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University of Arkansas for Medical SciencesPostdoctoral Fellow
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Applied Ontology |
Theories of Personal Identity |
Biomedical Ontology |
Web Ontology Language |