Recently added articles from The Monist:
The search for the basis of natural classification.(Essay)
Oct 01, 2007; Ghiselin, Michael T. ... "This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of the stars in constellations." --Darwin, On the Origin of Species 1859 p. 411. Classification may be de fined as the organization of knowledge (Ghiselin 2005a). It is an enterprise that has received a ...
Continua in biological systems.
Oct 01, 2007; Schulz, Stefan ... ABSTRACT We defend the fundamental ontological-pragmatic principle that where there are continua in reality science is often forced to make partly fiat terminological delimitations. In particular, this principle applies when it comes to describing biological organisms, their ...
Ontological issues in pharmacogenomics.(Essay)
Oct 01, 2007; Altman, Russ B. ... Introduction Pharmacogenomics is the study of how variation in genes is related to variation in drug response. When a drug is ingested, it interacts with molecules encoded by the genome, which is made of DNA. These molecules may be involved in the absorption, distribution, ...
Tendencies and other realizables in Medical Information Sciences.(Essay)
Oct 01, 2007; Jansen, Ludger ... 1. Introduction 1.1 Why Tendencies Are Important for Medical Information Sciences It would sound a bit odd if a medical scientist were to describe his work as research on certain special sorts of entities called 'tendencies'. Nevertheless, searching the standard ...
The factory model of disease.(Essay)
Oct 01, 2007; Williams, Neil E. ... INTRODUCTION The aim of the paper is to give an ontologically informed account of disease that can aid in the construction of disease ontologies. The paper begins by distinguishing cases of diseases from what are purely structural abnormalities, referred to as 'disorders'. The ...
The ecology of ontologies in the public domain.(Essay)
Oct 01, 2007; Baker, Christopher J.O. ... 1. Introduction Since the announcement of the creation of a Web Ontology Working Group in 2001, two standards, DAML+OIL[1] and its successor, the Web Ontology Language (OWL) [2] were introduced. The latter is now the agreed-upon standard for formally specifying knowledge on the ...
Books received.
Oct 01, 2007 ... Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: A Commentary. By Jens Timmermann. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. xxxi + 192. Cloth, $85.00 After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. By Aasdair MacIntyre. Third Edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, ...