Philosophical PerspectivesEarly View ORIGINAL ARTICLE Ontological Collectivism Raul Saucedo, Corresponding Author Saucedo [email protected] University of Colorado Boulder Correspondence Boulder. Email: protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 15 March 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12175Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesT...

Expanding on the recent call for a 'critical medical humanities' to intervene in questions of the ontology of health, this article develops a what we call a 'speculative' orientation to such interventions in relation to some of the ontological commitments on which contemporary biomedical cultures rest. We argue that crucial to this task is an approach to ontology that treats it not as a questio...

The purpose of this paper is to defend the systematic introduction of formal ontological principles in the current practice of knowledge engineering, to explore the various relationships between ontology and knowledge representation, and to present the recent trends in this promising research area. According to the "modelling view" of knowledge acquisition proposed by Clancey, the modeling acti...

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