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Main description: Although there is a huge literature on Nietzsche's philosophy, this is the first study in English that focuses on his ontology. Before proceeding to that ontology, Addis argues that, contrary to many commentators, Nietzsche defends both the possibility and the desirability of objectivity in the search for knowledge, including knowledge of the basic features of reality, that is, of ontology. In separate chapters, Addis then sets out, analyzes, and evaluates the five essential components of Nietzsche's ontology: constant change, substances and things, minds, causation, and will to power. In each case, Addis contributes an original understanding of the feature under discussion, with more detail than exists in other treatments, and defended with quotes from relevant texts of Nietzsche.

AbstractA pluriversal encounter that includes interlocutors from other ways of knowing and being requires recrafting how we commonly approach ontology in IR. Our shared ontological register only acknowledges separation as the fundamental existential assumption, and not all lifeways depart from this assumption. The article prods us to move beyond considering ontology as the study of being, a more substantialist reading, to include other fundamental existential commitments so that we can address how distinct presuppositions shape and are shaped by how we perceive and engage existence. With this reorientation, the article first establishes how even relational approaches in the discipline, including variations of constructivism, poststructuralism, and new materialism privilege separation as the primordial condition of existence to the exclusion of any other option. A conceptual toolset is then elaborated to examine how a singular commitment to separation constitutes an ontological parochialism that enforces reductionism, exclusion, and domination towards lifeways that embrace the interconnection as fundamental existential commitment. Even though more effective engagement across pluriversal worlds would be crucial for developing more complex tools for confronting the current planetary crisis, the discipline's reductionist concept of ontology itself keeps us quite far from effectively being able to engage in such an exchange.

The multilingual ontology builds on the metadata scheme introduced in deliverable 3.3 "The MICS Repository", and is presented as an associated module describing a project's impact. It is related to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) domains, and the ontology's vocabulary will be based, where possible, on EuroVoc, the EU's multilingual thesaurus [http://eurovoc.europa.eu/drupal/]. This effort to make the ontology multilingual is to ensure the ontology is accessible across the MICS casestudy sites, and further afield. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

The background thesis is that an implicit ontology of the people and the relation between the people and the state often shapes how we think in normative terms about politics. This article attempts to defend that thesis in relation to Rawls. The argument is that the rejection of an image of the people as a group agent connects with his objection to utilitarianism and the rejection of an image of the people as a mere aggregate connects with his objection to libertarianism. Rawls, it is argued, holds by an in-between picture and it is this that explains many of his most distinctive commitments.

Brings Schelling's ontology into conversation with contemporary analytic metaphysics of powersContributes to the recent revival of interest in Schelling as a historical figures as well as relevant to contemporary concernsOffers a unique account of Schelling's philosophy and conception of freedomLinks Schelling's work to current debates in the analytic traditionCharlotte Alderwick presents Schelling's ontology as fundamentally power-based. She demonstrates that this ontology enables his unique conception of human freedom outlined in the 'Freedom' essay.This distinctive reading demonstrates that Schelling's power-based ontology can usefully problematise and supplement contemporary work on power-based ontologies. First, where current work focuses on powers in relation to specific areas of metaphysics, Schelling provides a holistic picture, encompassing these areas into a single ontological story. Secondly, engagement with Schelling's work points to problems (and to possible solutions) that will arise for any power-based metaphysics, but have not been examined in the literature

Heidegger's Moral Ontology' offers the first comprehensive account of the ethical issues that underwrite Heidegger's efforts to develop a novel account of human existence. Drawing from a wide array of source materials from the period leading up to the publication of Being and Time (1919-1927), and in conversation with ancient, modern, and contemporary contributions to moral philosophy, James D. Reid brings Heidegger's early philosophy into fruitful dialogue with the history of ethics, and sheds fresh light on such familiar topics as Heidegger's critique of Husserl, his engagement with Aristotle, his account of mortality, the role played by Kant in the genesis of Being and Time, and Heidegger's early reflections on philosophical language and concepts. This lively book will appeal to all who are interested in Heidegger's early phenomenology and in his thought more generally, as well as to those interested in the nature, scope, and foundations of ethical life

For a critical discussion of power asymmetries within the co-managed protection of natural resources, political ontology offers a valuable theoretical framework. Relevant studies demonstrate that sustainability cannot be determined 'objectively' but is deeply entangled with, and dependent on, the specific ontological constitutions of worlds. However, my case study within the Brazilian conservation area Resex Tapajós-Arapiuns also reveals the limitations of a political ontological approach, as the framework cannot completely contend with the fragmentation of social collectives and the ontological plurality of everyday enactments. Demonstrating that this blind spot is the effect of a specific analytical perspective, I argue for a practice-related reformulation. Illustrated with the empirical data of my case study, I propose the adoption of three concepts for a practice-related political ontology, namely plural ecologies, ontological consequences, and contextual assumptions. ; Die Politischen Ontologie bietet einen wertvollen Zugang für die kritische Analyse von Machtgefügen innerhalb gemeindebasierten Naturschutzvorhaben und Co-Management natürlicher Ressourcen. Einschlägige Studien zeigen hier insbesondere, dass Nachhaltigkeit keine objektive Größe ist, sondern untrennbar mit spezifischen ontologischen Konstitutionen von Welt zusammenhängt. Doch weist mein Fallbeispiel des brasilianischen Naturschutzgebietes Resex Tapajós-Arapiuns auch auf die Grenzen Politischer Ontologie hin, vermag der theoretische Rahmen doch die Fragmentierung sozialer Kollektive und die ontologische Vielfältigkeit alltäglicher Praktiken nicht angemessen abzubilden. Diesen Schwachpunkt interpretiere ich als Effekt eines spezifischen analytischen Vorgehens und schlage vor, Politische Ontologie stattdessen praxistheoretisch auszulegen. ; Peer Reviewed

Ontologies are being used in many areas of science to improve clarity and communication of research methods, findings and theories. Many of these ontologies use an upper level ontology called Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) as their frame of reference. This article summarises Basic Formal Ontology and shows how it can provide a basis for development of an Addiction Ontology that encompasses all the things that addiction researchers, practitioners and policy makers want to refer to. BFO makes a fundamental distinction between what it calls continuants (e.g. objects and their characteristics) and occurrents (e.g. processes). Classifying addiction-related entities using this system enables important distinctions to be made that are frequently overlooked or confused in the literature due to inherent ambiguities in natural language expressions. The Addiction Ontology uses this framework to convey information about: people and populations and their characteristics (e.g. substance use disorder), products (e.g. heroin, tobacco-containing products), behaviours (e.g. cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption), interventions (e.g. detoxification, rehabilitation, legislation), research (e.g. measurement, theories, study designs), organisations (e.g. pharmaceutical industry, tobacco companies), and settings (e.g. hospital outpatient clinic, country).

"David Weissman argues against atomistic ontologies, affirming instead that all of reality is social. Every particular is a system created by the reciprocal causal relations of its parts, he explains. Weissman formulates an original metaphysics of nature that remains true to what is known through the empirical sciences, and he applies his hypothesis to a range of topics in psychology, morals, sociology, and politics." "The author contends that systems are sometimes mutually independent, but many systems - human ones especially - are joined in higher order systems, such as families, friendships, businesses, and states, that are overlapping or nested. Weissman tests this schematic claim with empirical examples in chapters on persons, sociality, and value. He also considers how the scheme applies to particular issues related to deliberation, free speech, conflict, and ecology."--Jacket

Ontologies of becoming Time passes, the objects of the world evolve. How to take this into account in knowledge graphs? The description of a domain often requires taking into account the passage of time and the evolution of the objects described: a concert is presented in a program before being played, a legislative project evolves according to amendments to the European Parliament, the educational programs change from year to year, the list of countries changes with political events, a pokemon undergoes evolutions, a project is planned, entrusted and carried out by an organization, the medical parameters of a patient vary, the cell is transformed and divided, the taste of wine evolves over time, the organization chart of the company changes…. Ontologies, whether philosophical or computer-based, are often concerned with describing a fixed world where the objects of the world, their classification, and the value of their properties are immutable. Yet we need every day to describe resources in their dynamics, in their continual changes. Some philosophers have reflected on this issue, some knowledge graph ontologies have taken this need into account, but generally only partially.