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Ontology and Critical Philosophy

2013
A recent essay by Peter van Inwagen opens with the observation that ’Ontology is a very old subject, but “ontology” is a relatively new word’ (van Inwagen 2009: 472). Indeed, as a topic warranting systematic study, the subject is usually traced back to Aristotle or Parmenides, while the word, in its Latin form ‘ontologia’, is not known to have appeared
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Depoliticisation in Critical Dialogic Ontologies

2016
This chapter critically examines dialogic forms of critical cosmopolitanism that share the liberal ambition of a genuine engagement with difference, but strive to make the ontological and ethical terms of such a dialogic interaction with alterity even more inclusive.
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Critical Ontology and Teacher Agency

2011
The critical ontology of ourselves has to be considered not, certainly, as a theory, a doctrine, nor even a permanent body of knowledge that is accumulating; it has to be conceived as an attitude, an ethos, a philosophical life in which the critique of what we are is at one and the same time the historical analysis of the limits that are imposed on us ...
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Expanding ‘criticality’ in the context of critical ontology and bricolage

Korean Association for Qualitative Inquiry, 2023
The purpose of this study is to offer investigate conceptual foundations for critical research, so called, ‘critical ontology’ and ‘bricolage’ research activities, in the perspectives of a critical applied linguist. The critique, as reinterpreted as the arts of existence or critical ontology of ourselves, is placed in the on-going inquiry for the ...
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Critical apparatus: Scribal Error Ontology

This thesis constitutes a research project that bridges philological knowledge with digital methods, aiming to develop an ontology, the Scribal Error Ontology, that meets the needs of textual criticism regarding scribal errors in manuscript witnesses. It is based on the philological principles of textual criticism and the critical apparatus, leveraging
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Signs, Social Ontology, and Critical Realism

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 1998
Even though sign‐systems are a crucial part of society, critical realism, as developed by Roy Bhaskar, does not yet have an adequate theory of signs and semiosis. The few suggestions that Bhaskar offers can be advanced through the semiotics of C.S. Peirce.
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Critical social ontology

Synthese, 2023
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Replies to Critics: Epistemology, Ontology, Methodology

2017
In this reply to his critics, Andrew Feenberg takes up the issues of the articles in the volume with the intention of clarifying his positions with respect to epistemology, ontology, and methodology. The chapter is divided into three main parts. Part One is devoted to questions of democracy.
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Language ontologies and posthumanist critical pedagogy

International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Abstract This paper discusses critical pedagogies in relation to critical language studies. We explore how a posthumanist approach – framed through language ontologies and based on onto-epistemic analysis – may shape critical pedagogies for language education. We specifically ask, how are critical pedagogies transformed by ontology?
Eugenia Demuro, Laura Gurney
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The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

Nucleic Acids Research, 2021
Benjamin M Good, Deepak R Unni, Nomi L Harris   +2 more
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