Projects
Buridan's Semantics and Ontology KU Leuven
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From goods-dominant business ontology to service-oriented business architecture Ghent University
A service-oriented business architecture is a business design that describes the activities to be executed within business processes as services delivered to these processes. A business ontology describes general reusable knowledge about business. This Design Science project aims at transforming existing goods-dominant ontologies into service-dominant ontologies and developing service-oriented business architectures based on service-dominant ...
A Future for Philosophical Anthropology? Historical Ontology as a Critical Project Ghent University
More than 200 years after the establishment of philosophical anthropology as a discipline of knowledge, its epistemological status is still vague and ambiguous. This project aspires a methodology and conceptual apparatus for a critical project of philosophical anthropology in terms of a ‘historical ontology’, underlying man’s historical coming into being.
This project investigates the epistemological status of philosophical anthropology ...
The Shadow Within Nature: Epistemology and Ontology of Prime Matter in the Late Middle Ages (1250-1430) KU Leuven
The proposed research is centred on an ontological and epistemological shadow posited within nature by medieval philosophers: the shadow cast by prime matter. The project will investigate a later medieval (ca. 1250-1430) debate that lies at the heart of hylomorphism, the theory that every bodily thing is made of matter and form. Medieval thinkers postulated the existence of a basic and primordial matter of which the corporeal universe is ...
Spinoza's ontology and politics of 'superstitio' KU Leuven
The Shadow Within Nature: Epistemology and Ontology of Prime Matter in the Late Middle Ages (1250-1430) KU Leuven
The research is centred on an ontological and epistemological shadow posited within nature by medieval philosophers: the shadow cast by prime matter. The project investigates a later medieval (ca. 1250-1430) debate that lies at the heart of hylomorphism, the theory that every bodily thing is made of matter and form. Medieval thinkers postulated the existence of a basic and primordial matter of which the corporeal universe is made. While a ...
Ontology and modeling framework for service science Ghent University
Service Science is a new interdisciplinary research field that studies management and engineering of service systems. Current research challenges include the development of a shared mental model of the service system abstraction and techniques for expressing that conceptualization in service system models. The proposed project addresses these challenges from the perspective of the Management Information Systems field of Conceptual ...
The development of a structuralist and process ontology based on the structural scientific realism and the philosophy of symbolic forms. Ghent University
Towards a Mixed Definition of Art. The Ontology of U+2018First ArtU+2019 and the Historical Definitions of Art. Ghent University
In this investigation, I criticize the circularity of historical definitions of art through the problem of U+2018first artU+2019 and I develop a new mixed definition of art that takes into account historical as well as aesthetic features of art. Therefore, I will show that Kants theory of art bridges aesthetic and historical approaches and can direct us to a more refined definition of art.