Posted in Biology & Medicine, Ontology & Science on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Robot Surgeon Removes Brain Tumor
Dudes. Don’t call it a robot if it’s not a robot. It’s a remote-controlled manipulator. A good one, sounds like. But it’s not a robot.
Posted in Matter & Energy, Ontology & Science on March 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Open Letter to the Scientific Community
Have I mentioned lately that pure science is a market economy?
Posted in Matter & Energy, Ontology & Science on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
Star explodes halfway across universe
Not only does the universe have an edge, but we know roughly where it’s located?
Posted in History & Prehistory, Ontology & Science on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Discovery Challenges Finding of a Separate Human Species
So one group of scientists is speculating in one direction, and another group of scientists is speculating in the other direction. What ever happened to reserving judgment until there’s enough data?
Posted in Language & Cognition, Ontology & Science, Society & Politics on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Ontology and Formal Semantics - Integration Overdue
Overdue indeed. I became a semantician because I found the content representations being used in cognitive science were vacuous. Then I became an ontologist because I found the content representations being used in semantics were vacuous.
Only with plausible, common-sense ontology can we ever do plausible, common-sesne semantics. Only with [...]
Posted in Ontology & Science on March 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in Ontology & Science on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Bayesian Statistics
This only took 250 years or so to catch on.
Posted in Ontology & Science on February 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Synopsis: The Empirical Stance
If you like the synopsis, read the book.
Posted in Biology & Medicine, Ontology & Science on February 23, 2008 | No Comments »
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
Now if we could just get other communities of practice to get themselves this organized at ontologizing their domains.
Posted in Ontology & Science on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
What It’s Like and What’s Really Wrong with Physicalism: A Wittgensteinian Perspective
Wittgenstein rediscovered. News at 11.
