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    On Perspectivism of Information System Ontologies.Timothy Tambassi - 2024 - Foundations of Science 29 (3):571-585.
    The growing diffusion of perspectivism within the debate on information system ontologies [ISOs] does not correspond to a thorough analysis of what perspectivism specifically consists of. This paper aims to fill this void. First, I show what supporting perspectivism in information system ontologies [PISO] means in terms of (minimal) claims and implications; then I argue that the definitions of ISO implicitly assume PISO’s (minimal) claims or, in other words, that ISOs presuppose and maintain PISO. Section 2 presents the main definitions (...)
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    The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies.Timothy Tambassi - 2017 - Springer Verlag.
    This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still unexplored, role. Accordingly, the first part offers a short overview of the ontological background of geo-ontologies, which comprehends computer science, philosophy and geography. The second part is devoted to describe the ontology of geography, to define notions such as geographical entities and boundaries, and to trace some philosophical tools useful for spatial representation. The (...)
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    What Kind of Ontological Categories for Geo-ontologies?Timothy Tambassi - 2019 - Acta Analytica 34 (2):135-144.
    Despite their recent development, geo-ontologies represent a complicated conundrum for the different experts involved in their design. Computer scientists use ontologies for describing the meaning of data and their semantics in order to make information resources built for humans understandable also for artificial agents. Geographers pursue conceptualizations that describe the domain of interest in a way that should be accessible, informative, and complete for their final recipients. In this context, philosophers are not required to sketch the historical background of ontology. (...)
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    Ontological Perspectivism and Geographical Categorizations.Timothy Tambassi - 2021 - Philosophia 50 (1):307-320.
    According to ontological perspectivism, there can be, in principle, multiple and alternative perspectives on the world that can be sliced, systematized, and conceptualized in different ways. Surely, such an ontological position has many categorial implications, which may vary depending on different disciplinary contexts. This paper explores parts of these implications in the realm of geography. In particular, it aims at discussing the ontological categories that one might use to describe the geographical world in an overarching perspective – that is, the (...)
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    Completeness in Information Systems Ontologies.Timothy Tambassi - 2022 - Axiomathes 32 (2):215-224.
    In the domain of information systems ontologies, the notion of completeness refers to ontological contents by demanding that they be exhaustive with respect to the domain that the ontology aims to represent. The purpose of this paper is to analyze such a notion, by distinguishing different varieties of completeness and by questioning its consistency with the open-world assumption, which formally assumes the incompleteness of conceptualizations on information systems ontologies.
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    On Scientific Ontology: A Reply to Gamper.Timothy Tambassi - 2020 - Axiomathes 31 (4):549-552.
    According to Gamper, one function of science is to determine how the world is. Science, Gamper continues, rests on a set of basic assumptions, and the gap between basic assumptions and science should be filled by ontological frameworks that accommodates the modal properties of such assumptions. Different frameworks may surely suggest different modal properties. Thus, in so far as we use different basic assumptions, we can have different ontologies with different modal properties. Ontologies affect, in turn, science, which, however, has (...)
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    On the Informativeness of Information System Ontologies.Timothy Tambassi - 2022 - Philosophia 50 (5):2675-2684.
    The current (still limited) use of the notion of informativeness in the domain of information system ontologies seems to indicate that such ontologies are informative if and only if they are understandable for their final recipients. This paper aims at discussing some theoretical issues emerging from that use which, as we will see, connects the informativeness of information system ontologies to their representational primitives, domains of knowledge, and final recipients. Firstly, we maintain that informativeness interacts not only with the actual (...)
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    Ontologie informatiche della geografia. Una sistematizzazione del dibattito contemporaneo.Timothy Tambassi & Diego Magro - 2015 - Rivista di Estetica 58:191-205.
    Geographical and geospatial ontologies are receiving a considerable attention in information technology, due to three different factors: the growing diffusion of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), their use in different applications and the impulse given by Semantic Web to this research area. The aim of these pages is to describe what a geo-information ontology is, in order to systematize the contemporary debate. In the first part, we delineate the domain of ontology of geography within the contemporary philosophical context. In the second (...)
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    On the Content of Information Systems Ontologies.Timothy Tambassi - 2021 - Acta Analytica 36 (4):615-621.
    Despite the fact that information systems ontologies [ISOs] support the mutual understanding between human beings and software applications, human beings and software applications do not understand ISOs' contents in the same way. The same applies to ontological integration. This paper attempts to account for such discrepancies by emphasizing that while human being can have access to entities represented in ISOs, software applications cannot.
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    The Philosophy of GIS.Timothy Tambassi (ed.) - 2019 - Springer.
    This anthology aims to present the fundamental philosophical issues and tools required by the reflection within and upon geography and Geographic Information Systems. It is an introduction to the philosophy for GIScience from an analytical perspective, which looks at GIS with a specific focus on its fundamental and most general concepts and distinctions. The first part of the book is devoted to explore some of the main philosophical questions arising from GIS and GIScience, which include, among others, investigations in ontology, (...)
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    Being Perspectivist on Information System Ontologies.Timothy Tambassi - forthcoming - Foundations of Science:1-16.
    Insofar as disagreement may in principle regard most of (maybe all) facets of information system ontologies’ [ISOs] debate, it may also produce a plurality of views – sometimes inconsistent with each other – on ISOs’ development and design. This paper analyzes a view that makes the recognition of – and provides a theoretical foundation for – such a plurality of views a trademark: perspectivism (on ISOs). The aim is to show what exactly endorsing perspectivism consists of, and how perspectivism differs (...)
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    For the sake of simplicity: Applying software design parsimony to the content of information system ontologies.Timothy Tambassi - 2023 - Zagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce 75:135-155.
    Although many information system ontologies (ISOs) claim to be parsimonious, the notion of parsimony seems to influence the debate on ISOs only at the level of vague and uncritical assumption. To challenge this trend, the paper aims to clarify what it means for ISOs to be parsimonious. Specifically, section 2 shows that parsimony in computer science generally concerns software design and, together with elegance, is one of the two aspects of the broader notion of simplicity. Section 3 transforms the main (...)
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    Questo numero.Antonio Freddi, Sandra Manzi-Manzi, Giacomo Miranda & Timothy Tambassi - 2015 - Società Degli Individui 53:5-6.
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    Questo numero.Sandra Manzi-Manzi, Timothy Tambassi & Italo Testa - 2018 - Società Degli Individui 60:5-6.
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    Contro l'imperio della necessità.Gabriele Scardovi & Timothy Tambassi - 2016 - Società Degli Individui 55:7-8.
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    A Geographical Taxonomy for Geo-ontologies.Timothy Tambassi - 2017 - Axiomathes 27 (4):355-374.
    This article intends to provide an overview on the philosophical and geographical background of geo-ontologies and to propose a geographical classification of these ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate. Accordingly, the first two paragraphs are devoted to offer a short introduction to the ontological turn in philosophy and to the development of the ontology of geography, that is that part of the ontology mainly focused on geographic entities and their boundaries, spatial representation, meretopological relations and (...)
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    Do ontologies always support communication of their content among human agents?Timothy Tambassi - forthcoming - AI and Society:1-2.
  18. (1 other version)Epistemologia e teoria sociale. Questioni interne ed esterne [Epistemology and social theory. Internal and external matters].Timothy Tambassi - 2011 - la Società Degli Individui 42.
    L’articolo discute il modo in cui la distinzione di Rudolf Carnap tra questioni interne ed esterne possa essere estesa e applicata alla teoria sociale. Seguendo Carnap si sostiene come, dato un sistema di riferimento, una questione è interna se valutata e risolta all’interno del sistema in questione, mentre è esterna se mette in discussione il sistema di riferimento dato e lo stato di cose che presuppone. Quindi, attraverso un’analisi incentrata principalmente sul sistema di riferimento ‘la Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana’ e (...)
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    From Geographical Lines to Cultural Boundaries.Timothy Tambassi - 2018 - Rivista di Estetica 67:150-164.
    The concept of boundary represents one of the fundamental philosophical issues triggered and required by the reflection upon geography – and ontology of geography specifically. But what kind of entity are geographical boundaries? What sorts of boundary have been identified by contemporary ontologists of geography? How can boundaries be classified from a geo-ontological point of view? What are the main contemporary classifications of geographical boundaries? How can culture and human beliefs influence such classifications? These questions represent the starting point of (...)
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  20. Inventari Dell’Esistente: Il Confronto Armstrong-Lowe.Timothy Tambassi - 2013 - Kínesis - Revista de Estudos Dos Pós-Graduandos Em Filosofia 5 (10):173-180.
    Obiettivo di queste pagine è confrontare le posizioni di D.M. Armstrong e E.J. Lowe circa che cosa esiste e mostrarne i punti comuni e le differenze. Vedremo come le nozioni di risorse esplicative e di economia ontologica costituiscano due elementi comuni a entrambe le proposte, pur assumendo, nei due casi, una priorità diversa.
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    Il rompicapo della realtà: metafisica, ontologia e filosofia della mente in E.J. Lowe.Timothy Tambassi - 2014 - Milano: Mimesis.
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    Leggi di nat ura, necessità, contingenza: il punto Di vista di E. J. Lowe.Timothy Tambassi - 2014 - Educação E Filosofia 28 (56):809-825.
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    (1 other version)L’io E Le Sue Cure: Harry G. Frankfurt e la filosofia pratica.Timothy Tambassi - 2010 - Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 65 (4):815-817.
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    (1 other version)Note di lettura. Distopie geografiche per futuri verosimili.Timothy Tambassi - forthcoming - la Società Degli Individui.
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    On Future Ontology: A Reply to Longenecker.Timothy Tambassi - 2022 - Axiomathes 32 (1):169-172.
    The supporters of Indeterminate Futurism Theory [IFT] suggest three different reasons for preferring their view over Growing Block Theory [GBT]. If compared to GBT, IFT offers a better account for the open future problem, our cognitive attitudes towards future contingents, and how open the future is. Michael Tze-Sung Longenecker disagrees with them, stating that the advantages suggested by IFT's supporters are not advantages at all and/or can be accommodated by GBT. This means that, if he is right, there is no (...)
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    Perspectivism on Knowledge Representation.Timothy Tambassi - unknown
    Talk at the Philosophy [in:of:for:and] Digital Knowledge Infrastructures online workshop (08/09/2022).
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    Per un catalogo geografico universale. Ontologie ibride, rappresentazioni cartografiche e intersezioni geo-informatiche.Timothy Tambassi - 2021 - Rivista di Estetica 76:204-221.
    This article might be interpreted as a theoretical journey in the realm of geographical investigation aimed at specifying the kinds of entities that such an investigation presupposes. Indeed, the purpose of these pages is to sketch what could be included in a geographical universal catalogue of all geographical entities there were, there are and (maybe) there will be. The starting point is Marcello Tanca’s thesis that geography presumes a hybrid ontology, grounded – at least – on three different joints of (...)
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    Studies in the Ontology of E.J. Lowe.Timothy Tambassi (ed.) - 2018 - Editiones Scholasticae.
    With the death of Edward Jonathan Lowe, the analytical philosophy lost one of the most influential thinkers of the last thirty-five years. His contributions include philosophy of mind, John Locke's philosophy and metaphysics. In particular, concerning metaphysical studies, the most innovative part of Lowe's philosophical perspective is the four-category ontology that, according to the author, provides an exhaustive inventory of what there is and a powerful explanatory framework for a metaphysical foundation of natural science. Accordingly, the purpose of this volume (...)
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  29. Paola Cantù, E qui casca l’asino. [REVIEW]Timothy Tambassi - 2012 - la Società Degli Individui 43.
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