Ontology and Philosophy

Ontologies have their origins in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, they have made somewhat in recent decades, not least due to the emergence of the semantic web and related applications in knowledge management, whether in sciences, engineering or business and finance.  If you ever wondered how philosophy is still highly relevant, if not crucial, to creating good ontologies, here is a short post for you, thanks to Oskar Holtz, a second year UCL Philosophy student who joined us as a summer intern.