THE RELEVANCE OF PHILOSOPHICAL ONTOLOGY TO INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
Barry Smith · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) · 2014
The discipline of ontology has enjoyed a checkered history since 1606, with a significant expansion in recent years. We focus here on those developments in the recent history of philosophy which are most relevant to the understanding of the increased acceptance of ontology, and especially of realist ontology, as a valuable method also outside the discipline of philosophy.