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Introduction to Applied Ontology
Author(s) -
Koepsell David R.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1998.tb03468.x
Subject(s) - ontology , categorization , field (mathematics) , social ontology , library science , state (computer science) , sociology , political science , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , algorithm , pure mathematics
A bstract . 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.