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On the Social Dynamics of Ontological Commitments

2010
The aim of my thesis is to provide a solution in which any stakeholder of a particular community (with a specific goal) can contribute to the ontology construction process, making the contribution of the "unproductive" long tail of the community relevant. Members in a community will describe their view and maintain a dialogue in natural language.
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Hybrid ontologies and social semantics

4th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2010
Semantic Web, Social Web, and new economic challenges are causing major shifts in the pervasive fabric that the internet has become, in particular for the business world. The internet's new role as participatory medium and its ubiquity lead to dense tri-sortal communities of humans and businesses mixed with computer systems, and semantically ...
Meersman, Robert, Debruyne, Christophe
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An ontology of social control tools

Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, 2006
In multi-agent systems, social commitments are increasingly used to capture roles, social norms, the semantics of agent communication as well as other inter-agent dependencies. Those systems rest on the assumption that agents respect their commitments.
Philippe Pasquier, Roberto A. Flores, Brahim Chaib-draa   +2 more
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The Social Ontology of Virtual Environments

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2003
ABSTRACT .This paper analyzes the ontological structure of institutional and other social entities in virtual environments. The emphasis is on institutional reality, which consists of entities (objects, events, etc.) like money, contracts, and chess pieces, which are constituted in part through collective agreements.
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Algorithms, ontology, and social progress

Global Media and Communication, 2018
Recently, media and communication researchers have shown an increasing interest in critical data studies and ways to utilize data for social progress. In this commentary, I highlight several useful contributions in the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) report toward identifying key data justice issues, before suggesting extra focus on ...
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Ontological pluralism and social values

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
There seems to be an emerging consensus among many philosophers of science that non-epistemic values ought to play a role in the process of scientific reasoning itself. Recently, a number of philosophers have focused on the role of values in scientific classification or taxonomy.
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Justice and the Social Ontology of the Corporation

Journal of Business Ethics, 2016
In this article I address the question of whether corporations should be considered as part of the basic structure of society as defined in Rawls’s Theory of Justice. To do so, it becomes necessary to understand which institutions are crucial for defining Rawls’s basic structure of society. I will argue that a social ontology aimed at understanding how
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Ontological Insecurity and Social Transformation:

Indigenous forms of violence are frequently framed and interpreted through a Western lens. Collections of commingled remains of humans from the Prehistoric American Southwest have been pigeonholed into the Western assumption that they were caused by resource competition and warfare. By reexamining these cases through the frame of ontological insecurity,
J. Cristina Freiberger, Debra L. Martin
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Social Ontology De-dramatized

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2021
Daniel Little
exaly  

Rights and obligations in Cambridge social ontology

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2022
Yannick Slade-Caffarel
exaly