Working Together in Philosophy and Informatics: An Introduction to the Contributions of the Second International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics (WSPI 2005)

摘要

Having people from two sciences come together appears to be a difficult task, especially when one of the sciences has a tradition that can be counted in millennia and where the other one some decades ago simply did not exist. Todays talking about ontologies in informatics (computer science), for instance, can easily be misleading. The term is borrowed from philosophy where there is no such thing as a multitude of ontologies, there is only ontology as the subject of existence. The Second International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics WSPI 2005 was organized by the Special Interest Group Philosophy and Informatics (SIG PandI) of the German Informatics Society (Arbeitskreis "Philosophie und Informatik" der Gesellschaft fur Informatik). This group provides a platform for discussions in form of regular meetings and workshops. Members are scientists from philosophy, informatics, and from related fields. The work of the SIG Pandl addresses and encourages especially—but not exclusively—the trans-disciplinary discourse on foundations of artificial intelligence with the help of philosophy. A lot of topics have been discussed already, e.g., the relation between philosophical concepts of ontology and ontologies as a concept of knowledge representation. For further information about the goals and the progress of the SIG and the results of earlier workshops and work meetings, visit the SIG's website.