Introduction to Applied Ontology: The Philosophical Analyses of Everyday Objects

The effort to categorize nature dates at least to Aristotle and is still ongoing. The study of categories is termed "ontology"--a field whose use in the philosophy of social science has most recently been revived. Last April 1998, the State University of New York at Buffalo hosted a confer...

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Published in:The American journal of economics and sociology 1999-04, Vol.58 (2), p.217-220
Main Author: Koepsell, David R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied ontology
Concept of being
Conferences
Congresses and Conventions
Cultural customs
Domain ontologies
Economic theory
Institutions
Invited Symposium on Applied Ontology in the Social Sciences
Law
Legal objections
New York
Ontology
Philosophers
Philosophical object
Philosophy
Physical sciences
Reality
Society
Sociology
Studies
Success
Wetlands
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Summary:The effort to categorize nature dates at least to Aristotle and is still ongoing. The study of categories is termed "ontology"--a field whose use in the philosophy of social science has most recently been revived. Last April 1998, the State University of New York at Buffalo hosted a conference on "Applied Ontology: A Marvin Farber Conference on Law and Institutions in Society." The following papers were selected from the group of papers presented at the conference.
ISSN:0002-9246
1536-7150