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Just What is Social Ontology?

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2019
Construing ontology as an inventory of what genuinely and nonredundantly exists, this paper investigates two questions: (i) Do all – or any – social phenomena belong in ontology?
Lynne Rudder Baker
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Critical Theory and Processual Social Ontology

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology, 2016
The purpose of this article is to bridge the gap between critical theory as understood in the Frankfurt school tradition on the one hand, and social ontology understood as a reflection on the ontological presuppositions of social sciences and social ...
Renault Emmanuel
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An ontology co-design method for the co-creation of a continuous care ontology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Ontology engineering methodologies tend to emphasize the role of the knowledge engineer or require a very active role of domain experts. In this paper, a participatory ontology engineering method is described that holds the middle ground between these ...
Ackaert, Ann   +9 more
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Massive ontology interface [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper describes the Massive Ontology Interface (MOI), a web portal which facilitates interaction with a large ontology (over 200,000 concepts and 1.6M assertions) that is built automatically using OpenCyc as a backbone.
Legg, Catherine   +2 more
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Ontological Investigations of a Pragmatic Kind? A Reply to Lauer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This paper is a reply to Richard Lauer’s “Is Social Ontology Prior to Social Scientific Methodology?” (2019) and an attempt to contribute to the meta-social ontological discourse more broadly.
Lohse, Simon
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B. Epstein’s Social Ontology

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2022
The article realizes the analysis of B. Epstein’s social ontology. Social ontology is teaching on basic principles of constructing of social reality, founded on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary strategies of investigations of the social world ...
Andrey M. Orekhov
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Theoretical Procedures and Elder-Vass's Critical Realist Ontology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article scrutinizes some theoretical procedures prevalent in the philosophy of social science. These procedures are exemplified in Elder-Vass’s critical realism, which promises to place the social sciences on a sound ontological footing. The article
Archer M.   +7 more
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Social Ontologies of Disability - Towards the Discursive Interpretations of Embodied Difference [PDF]

open access: yesStudia z Teorii Wychowania, 2022
Within disability research philosophical issues are becoming increasingly important in line with the paradigmatic change connected with social model of disability.
Jolanta Rzeźnicka-Krupa
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The Conservation of Authenticity: Political Commitment and Racial Reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Discusses issues related to the conservation of racial authenticity, political commitment and racial reality in the U.S.
Monahan, Michael
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