Category: General
“Best of JOWO 2025” Award from SCOR
We are proud to announce that Fumiaki Toyoshima (SCOR member, University of Neuchâtel) and Ludger Jansen (SCOR external collaborator, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Brixen) have received the “Best of JOWO 2025” award for their paper: “Malfunctioning Artifacts: A Step Towards a Realizable-Centered Unifying Account” The paper was presented at the 9th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO 2025), held…
How to Put Ontologies to Work
In this post, I’d like to provide a preliminary discussion for the SCOR General Meeting on September 25th. While there are several issues that we must tackle in order to advance SCOR, I believe that there is a common thread running through them: how to put ontologies to work. As you can see on the…
Ontology Beyond Philosophy
When I tell people that I work in a philosophy department and mention my interest in applied ontology, I’m often met with two questions: “What is applied ontology?” followed by “What is the link with philosophy?” This post aims to answer these questions and explore how philosophical thinking continues to solve practical problems in our…
A new center for ontology in Switzerland
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Swiss Center for Ontological Research (SCOR), a new hub for advancing ontological research in Switzerland.
