Introduction to Applied Ontology
- 1 April 1998
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology
- Vol. 58 (2) , 217
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1998.tb03468.x
Abstract
Abstract. The effort to categorize nature dates at least to Aristotle and is still ongoing. The study of categories is termed “ontology”–a field whose use in the philosophy of social science has most recently been revived. Last April 1998, the State University of New York at Buffalo hosted a conference on “Applied Ontology: A Marvin Farber Conference on Law and Institutions in Society.” The following papers were selected from the group of papers presented at the conference.Keywords
This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: