Foundations of an ontology of philosophy

Pierre Grenon; Barry Smith

doi:10.1007/s11229-009-9658-x

Foundations of an ontology of philosophy

Pierre Grenon
, Barry Smith

Philosophy

University of Geneva

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Abstract

We describe an ontology of philosophy that is designed to aid 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 data pertaining to the philosophical literature, and in the long term also to support reasoning about the provenance and contents of such literature, by providing a representation of the philosophical domain that is oriented around what philosophical literature is about.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	185-204
Number of pages	20
Journal	Synthese
Volume	182
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9658-x
State	Published - Sep 2011

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Ontology
Philosophy

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