We describe an ontology of philosophy that is designed to help navigation through philosophical literature, including literature in the form of encyclopedia articles and textbooks and in both printed and digital forms. The ontology is designed also to serve integration and structuring of philosophical literature, and in the long term also to

Mar 21, 2018 · An example is a Lockean “nominal essence” theory of social categories (see section A.2.4 of the supplement). ... , history of the ontology of art, the philosophy of music, the philosophy of dance, conceptual art, and the philosophy of digital art. 5.6 Money. Menger (1892) tells a story of the emergence of money from trading practices. For a ...

Philosophy and economics studies topics such as public economics, behavioural economics, rationality, justice, history of economic thought, rational choice, the appraisal of economic outcomes, institutions and processes, the status of highly idealized economic models, the ontology of economic phenomena and the possibilities of acquiring knowledge of them.

In computer science and information science, an ontology encompasses a representation, formal naming, and definition of the categories, properties, and relations between the concepts, data, and entities that substantiate one, many, or all domains of discourse.More simply, an ontology is a way of showing the properties of a subject area and how they are related, by defining a set of …

Jan 01, 2015 · It is vital to recognize that both ontology and epistemology are mainly based on the researchers beliefs and personal persuasion about the conception of world and have certain methodological consequences (Hay, 2002: p. 61). The first term ‘ontology’ can be used to relate to the scientific and philosophical theory of being.

Jul 24, 2021 · The Importance of Research Philosophy. Research philosophy occupies a significant place in the field of science and education. In general, philosophy deals with the “study of knowledge, reality and existence” (Moon et al., 2018, p. 296).When concerning the realm of research, the philosophical approach determines the very direction of a scholar’s thought, thus …

Sep 10, 2007 · 1. The Word ‘Metaphysics’ and the Concept of Metaphysics. The word ‘metaphysics’ is notoriously hard to define. Twentieth-century coinages like ‘meta-language’ and ‘metaphilosophy’ encourage the impression that metaphysics is a study that somehow “goes beyond” physics, a study devoted to matters that transcend the mundane concerns of Newton …

ontology, the philosophical study of being in general, or of what applies neutrally to everything that is real. It was called “first philosophy” by Aristotle in Book IV of his Metaphysics. The Latin term ontologia (“science of being”) was felicitously invented by the German philosopher Jacob Lorhard (Lorhardus) and first appeared in his work Ogdoas Scholastica (1st ed.) in 1606.

2. Philosophy as Phenomenological Ontology. In order to understand Heidegger’s philosophy before “the turn”, let us first briefly consider his indebtedness to Edmund Husserl. As it has been mentioned, Heidegger was interested in Husserl from his early student years at the University of Freiburg when he read Logical Investigations. Later ...

Nov 16, 2020 · For example, when people know that they are or might be observed (external to us), they are unlikely to engage in illegal activity because they fear punishment. Bibliography. Ayer, A. J. (Ed.). (1959). Logical positivism. New York, NY: Free Press. Hofweber, T. (Summer 2020). Logic and ontology. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of ...