The purpose of this dissertation is to explore and analyze a domain of research thought to be shared by two areas of philosophy: computational and digital ontology. Computational ontology is philosophy used to develop information systems also called computational ontologies. Digital ontology is philosophy dealing with our understanding of Being and human existence in terms of the digital. While computational ontology accounts for reality as that which is disclosed to us by natural science—reality independent of human experience—digital ontology always begins with and refers back to the human being in its analysis of Being. The methodology in this dissertation is phenomenology. Both computational and digital ontology are represented using instrumental case studies. The findings consist of essential components shared by computational and digital ontology, the modes in which they appear, and philosophical questions to explore in future research. Ultimately, this dissertation concludes that there is a domain shared by computational and digital ontology in spite of some fundamental differences between the two. / A Dissertation submitted to the College of Information in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2009. / April 22, 2009. / Ontology, Phenomenology, Cyberspace, Digital Representation, Classification, User-centered, Naturalism, Philosophy of Information / Includes bibliographical references. / Kathleen Burnett, Professor Directing Dissertation; Russell Dancy, Outside Committee Member; Gary Burnett, Committee Member; Wayne Wiegand, Committee Member.
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| Contributors | Compton, Bradley Wendell, 1976- (authoraut), Burnett, Kathleen (professor directing dissertation), Dancy, Russell (outside committee member), Burnett, Gary (committee member), Wiegand, Wayne (committee member), School of Library and Information Studies (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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