The Philosophy of Geo-Ontologies

• Main Author: Tambassi, Timothy (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
• Subjects: Environmental geography.; Ontology.; Human geography.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Environmental Geography.; Human Geography.; Regional/Spatial Science.

This book is intended as a philosophical introduction to geo-ontologies, in response to their increasing diffusion within the contemporary debate, where philosophy plays a fundamental, though still unexplored, role. Accordingly, the first part offers a short overview of the ontological background of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I. The Ontological Background
• Ontologies in Computer Science: a brief overview
• From the Ontological Turn to the Ontology of Geography
• Common Sense Conceptualizations and Systems of Objects
• Part II. Geographical Entities, Boundaries and Spatial Representation
• Experiments and Results
• From a Speculative Perspective: Geographic Entities and Boundaries
• On Drawing (Different) Lines on a Map
• On the Ontological Status of Geographical Boundaries
• Spatial Representation and Ontological Tools
• Part III. From a Geographical Perspective: Spatial Turn, Taxonomies and Geo-Ontologies
• From the Spatial Turn to the Diffusion of Geo-ontologies
• The Problems of Existing Taxonomies
• A Geo-ontological Tri-Partition
• PART IV. Geo-ontologies, Digital Humanities and Ancient World
• Towards a Geo-ontology for the Ancient World
• Geography in Greek and Roman Culture
• Conclusion.