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The Intuitive Concept of Information: An Analysis
This paper seeks to determine the intuitive meaning of the concept of information by indicating its essential (definitional) features and relations with other concepts, such as that of knowledge. The term “information” – as with many other concepts, such
Król Zbigniew
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Social ontology is the philosophical study of the nature and properties of the social world. Language plays a seemingly key role in explicating how social kinds come into being and are set up. Nonetheless, surprisingly little has been written about the precise role of language in social ontology and how we should understand the constructive force of ...
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This paper proposes two formal models for understanding real-life dialogues, aimed at capturing argumentative structures performatively enacted during conversations.
Yaskorska-Shah Olena
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A Framework of Social Ontology
The research sets out an organizing framework for the field of social ontology, the study of the of the nature of the social world. Social ontology is also gaining prominence in traditional philosophical discussions. The subject matter of social ontology
B. Epstein +4 more
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Analogicity in Computer Science. Methodological Analysis
Analogicity in computer science is understood in two, not mutually exclusive ways: 1) with regard to the continuity feature (of data or computations), 2) with regard to the analogousness feature (i.e.
Stacewicz Paweł
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Ontology of Transgressive Social Media
This paper presents the T-Magic formula revealing ontology of social media which has become a transgressive form of media through its ability to build a digital community, sharing digital identity, and building a digital social capital, that prevails ...
Valentin N. Stepanov
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Institutions, Ideology, and Nonideal Social Ontology
Analytic social ontology has been dominated by approaches where institutions tend to come out paradigmatically as being relatively harmonious and mutually beneficial.
Johan Brännmark
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Redrawing Foucault's Social Ontology [PDF]
I propose that Foucault's works, since he wrote Discipline and Punish , rely on an implicit meta-theory that is compatible with the fundamentals of critical realism. To this end I examine the status of truth, methodology and social ontology used by Foucault. If this thesis is correct, then a critical realist reading of Michel Foucault would avoid some
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Implicit and Explicit Examples of the Phenomenon of Deviant Encodings
The core of the problem discussed in this paper is the following: the Church-Turing Thesis states that Turing Machines formally explicate the intuitive concept of computability. The description of Turing Machines requires description of the notation used
Quinon Paula
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The Ontology of Social Practices
Although social practices are widely considered to be essential building blocks in the construction of our social world, there is not much of an agreement regarding what kind of entities they are and what constitutes their nature.
Miguel Garcia Godinez
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