From concepts to clinical reality: an essay on the benchmarking of biomedical terminologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Strategies for referent tracking in electronic health records
Journal of Biomedical Informatics - Special issue: Biomedical ontologies
Towards A Realism-Based Metric for Quality Assurance in Ontology Matching
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (FOIS 2006)
Realism for scientific ontologies
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010)
Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection?
Applied Ontology
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
In “Ontological realism: Methodology or misdirection?” I offered a detailed critique of the position referred to as “realism” taken by Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters. This position is claimed to serve as the basis for a “realist methodology” that they seek to impose on the development of scientific ontologies, particularly within the biomedical sciences. Here, in part responding to a reply to those criticisms by Smith and Ceusters, I return the focus to an examination of fundamental incoherencies in this realist approach and propose an alternative that is amenable to much of what Smith and Ceusters hope to accomplish. And I sketch what I believe is needed to advance ontology theory and practice in the sciences.