The classical tilt of justificatory liberalism

Social Democracy, Complexity and Education: sociological perspectives from classical liberalism

In the second half of the nineteenth century, in the period after John Stuart Mill, and into and including the first third of the twentieth century, a group of philosophers, sociologists, economists and journalists, systematically adapted classical liberal arguments to make them relevant to the appalling social conditions generated by the development of capitalism in the eighteenth and nineteen...

Justificatory Reasons for Action

Practical reasons play a central role in our everyday discourse about action and there is no major ethical theory into which the concept of reasons for action does not play a crucial role. However, the nature of reasons for acting is not well understood. Th e aim of the present essay is therefore to clarify the notion of justifi catory reasons for action. To accomplish this, I start, after some...

The Justificatory Structure of OWL Ontologies

Current ontology development tools offer debugging support by presenting justifications for entailments of OWL ontologies. In many cases even a single entailment may have many distinct justifications, and justifications for distinct entailments may be critically related. We call the set of relations between multiple justifications the justificatory structure of an ontology. A restricted analysi...

The Justificatory Structure of the NCBO BioPortal Ontologies

Current ontology development tools offer debugging support by presenting justifications for entailments of OWL ontologies. While these minimal subsets have been shown to support debugging and understanding tasks, the occurrence of multiple justifications presents a significant cognitive challenge to users. In many cases even a single entailment may have many distinct justifications, and justifi...

A Morass of Liberalism