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• Basic entities and predication

  
  Alexander Pruss's Blog — Authority: 495
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Discussion About Knowledge and Causality

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 541
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Call for Chapters: Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 134
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• 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 ...
  3 days ago

• Points and Objects

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 407
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Difference Engines or Bhaskar’s Objects

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 541
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Reality Shifting – Part 1: Rezzing @ _Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_

  
  transreal.org — Authority: 118
  Reality Shifting – Part 1: Rezzing “There are many worlds and many realities in our universe. When one reality, or one world-view is superimposed on another, it is inevitable that social, economic and cultural problems arise. Hierarchies of worlds are constructs of a bygone era. Ecologies of worlds should ...
  6 days ago

• Observations from OWL Experiences and Directions 2009

  
  The Phaneron — Authority: 100
  I attended OWL Experiences and Directions (OWLED) at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC). The sessions were very good and I had the opportunity to meet some of the greats in the OWL 2 community. What a treat ! The RDF/OWL community continues to work through important issues in realism and ...
  1 week ago

• Variation as a social fundamental

  
  UnderstandingSociety — Authority: 505
  Over 700 historians, sociologists, demographers, and political scientists enjoyed a splendid program of panels at the Social Science History Association in Long Beach this week ( link ). There were panels on recent historical demography, comparative historical analysis, and social mobilization research, as well as a ...
  1 week ago

• Brahman and the Atman or God and the Soul

  
  Ephemeral Thoughts — Authority: 123
  Note – When I started this post I had an idea of what I wanted to say and where the post was going. Then I got sidetracked by real life stuff and lost my train of thought. The ending might be more abrupt than I intended. What is a soul? What is the relation of the soul to the All? These are the questions that ...
  1 week ago

• Localism and assemblage theory

  
  UnderstandingSociety — Authority: 505
  Several earlier posts have described the idea of "methodological localism" ( post ).  This is part of an argument I want to defend in support of the idea that we need new and better ways of thinking about the "stuff" of society. We need to thoroughly question and rethink the assumptions we make about social objects ...
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• Methodological localism

  
  UnderstandingSociety — Authority: 505
  I offer a social ontology that I refer to as methodological localism (ML).  This theory of social entities affirms that there are large social structures and facts that influence social outcomes.  But it insists that these structures are only possible insofar as they are embodied in the actions and states of ...
  1 week ago

• Information Model – Terminology Equivalence

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 154
  “These pages deal with the key challenge of designing information model (’IM’) structures – mostly represented in openEHR as archetypes – and terminology to be semantically equivalent. Why are they not just the same? For many reasons: archetypes are about what information is useful to gather; terminologies ...
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• Invasion of the Body Snatchers

  
  Larval Subjects . — Authority: 541
  Whenever the concept of memes comes up it seems that people get really incensed. I’m baffled by this reaction. What is it about this concept that gets folks so worked up? I certainly understand the point that meme theory is underdeveloped, but this is a call for theoretical elaboration and development, not ...
  1 week ago

• In Praise of Aesthetics over Philosophy? The Metaphors of Projection

  
  Frames /sing — Authority: 464
  Dreaming Up The “Insides” of Objects Steve Shaviro has a post up in praise of Harman’s use of aesthetics (metaphors and whatnot) over philosophy, offered in the wake of his recent criticism of Harman’s philosophy: Object Oriented Aesthetics? . I posted a comment on Harman’s creative insertion of human ...
  1 week ago

• Are social networks fundamental?

  
  UnderstandingSociety — Authority: 505
  There are several natural starting points when we begin thinking seriously about the social world and how it works. For example, we can begin with individual agents and try to understand social patterns as the expression of common features of reasoning and motivation by stylized agents. This is roughly the strategy ...
  1 week ago

• For people who don’t get Twitter, Facebook, etc. Nice story ~ other people can read it too

  
  flowing motion — Authority: 437
  This is a long story and a tame story in many respects, read on . . . I am a psychologist. Any one who has majored in psychology knows that we are trained at university and college to be distant from our clients. We are even trained to call people “subjects” – or we were in my day. We are also trained to see ...
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• Darknesses

  
  Naught Thought — Authority: 407
  The limit or non-limit of darkness is its terrifying feature – if  the darkness is expansive and not invasive (oil or plague like, creeping inside organisms) then it is its formalized bound that must be decided which also allows for the possibility of a darkness within darkness. Take the following from Ligotti’s ...
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• Reflections on Science 2.0 from a distance - Part II

  
  Science in the open — Authority: 445
  This is the second of two posts discussing the talk I gave at the Science 2.0 Symposium organized by Greg Wilson in Toronto in July. As I described in the last post Jon Udell pulled out the two key points from my talk and tweeted them. The first suggested some ideas about what the limiting unit of science, or ...
  2 weeks ago

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