Foundations of an ontology of philosophy

Pierre Grenon

Barry Smith

pp. 185-204

in: Colin Allen, Anthony F. Beavers (eds), Representing philosophy, Synthese 182 (2), 2011.

Abstract

We describe an ontology of philosophy that is designed to aid navigation through philosophical literature, including literature in the form of encyclopedia articles and textbooks and in both printed and digital forms. The ontology is designed also to serve integration and structuring of data pertaining to the philosophical literature, and in the long term also to support reasoning about the provenance and contents of such literature, by providing a representation of the philosophical domain that is oriented around what philosophical literature is about.