Ontology

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• Neo-Liberal Normativity

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 541
  Over at Poetix Dominic has an interesting post up responding to Pete’s recent discussion of normativity over at Speculative Heresy. Dominic writes: The crux here seems to be that “man” is not in himself a normal animal: normative accounts of human being are best taken as descriptions of the commitments we ...
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• Maupassant’s Horror

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 404
  Guy de Maupassant’s short horror tale The Horla (the out there) is excellent ground for darkly vitalistic speculations. The gothic tale, one of the many celebrated in Lovecraft’s “Supernatural Horror in Literature” is told in a series of diary entries. The author who at the start revels in the wonders of ...
  22 hours ago

• Translation and Information

  
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  I’m a bit groggy this morning. Last night my three year old daughter smacked her forehead against the coffee table and we had to take a trip to the emergency room. Seven stitches and five hours later we finally got home around one thirty in the morning and then didn’t get asleep until four or four thirty. I’m ...
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• Relations of Translation Between Actants

  
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  I am still experimenting with the diagram below, but as I was teaching the concept of translation in Harman’s Prince of Networks today, I found it to be a useful heuristic device for thematizing just what is new or interesting in Latour’s concept of translation. Scroll past the Scribd diagram for a bit of ...
  3 days ago

• Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 2009, Amsterdam

  
  O'Really? — Authority: 396
  Last Friday, the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam hosted a workshop called Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the Life Sciences (SWAT4LS) 2009 . Following on from last year [1], the workshop proceedings will be published at ceur-ws.org and in a special issue of the Journal of ...
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• Bhaskar Again: The Real, the Actual, and the Empirical

  
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  The post below can be enlarged by scrolling to the bottom of the post and clicking on the “full page” and “zoom” buttons. View this document on Scribd
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• The Decline and Fall of Assorted Empires

  
  The Map Scroll — Authority: 415
  A visualization of four European empires over the course of the 19th and 20th Centuries: The bubbles respresent "the evolution of the top 4 maritime empires of the XIX and XX centuries by [areal] extent"; hence Britains loss of Canada looks like a more significant bursting of the imperial bubble than its loss of ...
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• What Might Have Been; What Still Might Be

  
  All Life Is Problem Solving — Authority: 118
  Many progressives, even though they’ve been working for a PO-based health care reform bill, have 1) never given up Medicare for All as the goal of their activity, and 2) decided, in the first quarter of 2009, that Medicare for All could not pass the new Congress. They then reacted to their realization by concluding ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Michael Schroeder: Predicton of Drug Target Interactions from Literature by Context Similarity

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 121
  Typical researcher spends 12.4 hours a week searching for information. Why not use Google? ‘Cause Google is not semantic. Go PubMed – Filter PubMed contents against all the terms in the Gene Ontology. If you use simple categorisation for information retrieval potentially increase search burden due to ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Linking Open Drug Data to Cheminformatics abd Proteochemometrics

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 121
  Image via Wikipedia (Notes frm the presentation as it happens) Knowledge is not uni or bivariate, but we think of it as such: this leads to information loss. Naming things: showing example of a trivial name, an IUPAC systematic name and an InChI and points out that these have different information content. ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Sonja Zillner: Towards the Ontology Based Classification of Lymphoma Patients using Semantic Image Annotation

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 121
  (Again, these are notes as the talk happens) This has to do with the Siemens Project Theseus Medico – Semantic Medical Image Understanding (towards flexible and scalable access to medical images) Different images from many different sources: e.g. X-ray, MRI etc…use this and combine with treatment plans, ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Matthias Loebe: TIM A semantic web application for the specification of metadata items in clinical research

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 121
  (Again, these are live notes as bullet points.) Problems with the Specification of Clinical Trials Development of trial protocol Preparation of study centres Registration of patients etc….. Case report Forms capture data at different time points (lab results, therapy outcomes, treatment history etc..) ...
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• SWAT4LS2009 – Keynote Alan Ruttenberg: Semantic Web Technology to Support Studying the Relation of HLA Structure Variation to Disease

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 121
  (These are live-blogging notes from Alan’s keynote…so don’t expect any coherent text….use them as bullt points to follow the gist of the argument.) The Science Commons: a project of the Creative Commons 6 people CC specializes CC to science information discovery and re-use establish legal clarity ...
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• Basic entities and predication

  
  Alexander Pruss's Blog — Authority: 494
  Suppose that trope theory is correct. Then what it is for x to have a given property P is to have a trope, say P x , associated with it. But suppose now that x is a reducible entity—one facts about which reduce to the existence and functioning of other entities (e.g., x might be a table—table-facts ...
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• Discussion About Knowledge and Causality

  
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  Mikhail sent me the following post in email, giving me permission to post it if I so desire. I think it gets at a number of important differences and assumptions, so it might be of general interest to others. Following Mikhail’s post you will find my reply. I hope others interested in the realism/anti-realism ...
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• Call for Chapters: Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 135
  SECOND CALL FOR CHAPTERS (Proposals Submission Deadline: 15 DECEMBER 2009) Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances A book edited by Wilson Wong, Wei Liu and Mohammed Bennamoun University of Western Australia, Australia http://explorer.csse.uwa.edu.au/editedbook ...
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• Licences for Ontologies

  
  Semantic Science — Authority: 121
  Image via Wikipedia One of the things that I have been grappling with for quite some time is the whole notion of licences for ontologies . Of course, neither I – nor anybody else for that matter, should have to worry about this. But the world is the way it is and so the question is: what would an appropriate ...
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• Points and Objects

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 404
  Levi has an interesting post about quantum mechanics and Speculative Realism. A whole slew of issues arises surrounding epistemological versus ontological realism particularly in regards to the issue of observation and the uncertainty principle. As the Dailykos post he references makes clear, decoherence does not ...
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• Difference Engines or Bhaskar’s Objects

  
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  In response to “ A Psychoanalytic Defense of Realism “, Chris over at the great science and psychology blog, Mixing Memory , asks : OK, maybe I am missing something, but both your example from psychoanalysis and the nature of science seem to imply only one thing: that there is something out there that is the ...
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• A Psychoanalytic Defense of Realism

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 541
  A central aim of Bhaskar’s A Realist Theory of Science is to diagnose what he refers to as the “epistemic fallacy”. In a nutshell, the epistemic fallacy consists in the thesis, often implicit, that ontological questions can be reduced to epistemological questions. The idea here is that ontology can be ...
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