This project has been influenced and informed from many perspectives by many authors. This brief list of sources includes some under current consideration.
FRISCO Report |
Eckhard D. Falkenberg, Wolfgang Hesse, Paul Lindgreen, Björn E. Nilsson, J. L. Han Oei, Colette Rolland, Ronald K. Stamper, Frans J. M. Van Assche, Alexander A. Verrijn-Stuart, Klaus Voss |
The "FRISCO Report" is a 200 page technical and philosophical review of issues and methods that arise in the context of a project that involves broad integration across disciplines and common professional protocols. |
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The Big Book of Concepts |
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Comprehensive introductory review of the theory of concepts, considers many of the sources listed here, presents down-to-earth highly intuitive model of conceptual structure.
Amazon Review: We've needed a book like this for the past decade. The Big Book of Concepts is beautifully done in so many ways and a true service to the field. Murphy's ambitious and integrated review is unusually thorough, thoughtful, and fair in its coverage of the diverse literatures on concepts. Graduate students will remember this volume the rest of their careers for what it taught them, and seasoned researchers will use it as the authoritative source to fill holes in their knowledge.
http://cognet.mit.edu/book/big-book-of-concepts |
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Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine |
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Review of basic principles underlying a science and technology of semantics |
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Programming Languages, Information Structures and Machine Organization |
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Integrated/holistic overview of computer science, tying major aspects together into a common framework |
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Categories and Concepts |
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Clarifying survey of concept theory as it was emerging at that time. Provides clear insight into dimensionality of features, and comparison of various alternative interpretations and models of concepts. A landmark paradigm for concept theorists, still very helpful. |
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Applied Ontology, An Introduction |
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Anthology of articles on applied ontology, reviews "realism" perspective and many other issues relating to collaborative ontology |
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Object Oriented Design with Applications |
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Review of many major features of hierarchical system design and the definition of classes and abstract objects. |
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On Conceptual Modelling, Perspectives from Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Programming Languages |
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Springer-Verlag |
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Foundations of Cognitive Science |
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900 page anthology of major papers and perspectives in cognitive science |
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On Human Communication |
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Cognitive Psychology and its Implications |
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Systems and Theories in Psychology |
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McGraw-Hill, 1979 |
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An Introduction to Numerical Classification |
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Academic Press |
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Principles of Expert Systems |
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Addison Wesley |
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The Sciences of the Artificial |
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Plans and the Structure of Behaviour |
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Classical systems analysis model of the human mind and the action it organizes |
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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two |
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Influential and widely cited paper on human "cognitive bandwidth" |
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature |
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Cybernetics |
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The Act of Creation |
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Symbols, Signals and Noise |
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The Laws of Form |
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Society of Mind |
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Maps of the Mind |
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What is the mind?' is a question that has intrigued
people from the earliest times - indeed, for as long as
man has considered the possibility of mind at all. It is the
first truly philosophical question which comes with the
dawning of self-consciousness. Yet it stumbles on a
vexing question: How can that which knows, know itself?
Each representation of the known which lacks the
knower is necessarily incomplete.
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General Systems Theory |
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Design for a Brain |
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An Introduction to Cybernetics |
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The Origin of Concepts |
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Mathematics, Queen and Servant of Science |
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Men of Mathematics |
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The Alphabet Versus the Goddess |
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Infinity and the Mind |
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Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology |
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Goedel, Escher, Bach |
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Women, Fire and Dangerous Things |
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Powerful and detailed review of the theory of concepts from the point of view of metaphor, analogy and family resemblance |
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God and the New Physics |
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The Mind of God |
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The Scientific Basis for a Rational World |
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On Growth and Form |
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The Varieties of Religious Experience |
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No Boundary |
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Chapter 2 of integral philosopher Ken Wilber's pioneering account of boundaries and distinctions and categories, and his thesis that "where the line is drawn, there the battle begins" |
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Science, Order, and Creativity |
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Higher Creativity |
Howard Rheingold |
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Number: The Languages of Science |
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"This is beyond doubt the most interesting book on the evolution of mathematics which has ever fallen into my hands.
- Albert Einstein |
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Beyond Concepts: Ontology as Reality Representation |
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Abstract. There is an assumption commonly embraced by ontological engineers, an
assumption which has its roots in the discipline of knowledge representation, to the
effect that it is concepts which form the subject-matter of ontology. The term ‘concept’
is hereby rarely precisely defined, and the intended role of concepts within ontology
is itself subject to a variety of conflicting (and sometimes intrinsically incoherent)
interpretations. It seems, however, to be widely accepted that concepts are in
some sense the products of human cognition.
The present essay is devoted to the application of ontology in
support of research in the natural sciences. It defends the thesis that ontologies developed
for such purposes should be understood as having as their subject matter,
not concepts, but rather the universals and particulars which exist in reality and are
captured in scientific laws. We outline the benefits of a view along these lines by
showing how it yields rigorous formal definitions of the foundational relations used
in many influential ontologies, illustrating our results by reference to examples
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The Tree of Knowledge |
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"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. |
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The Phenomenology of Symbolic Forms |
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The Ghost in the Machine |
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The Ghost in the Machne |
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