BORO Ontology

This is the second in a series of three presentations for the Oslo Summer School. It covers the BORO Foundational Ontology (and the related bCLEARer framework). It starts by explaining BORO's toolkit-based approach. The motivation for this choice is agility, with a goal of speeding up the evolution of the ontology as well as allowing the approach to be flexibly tailored to a variety of situations. It then gives the BORO genealogy, explaining briefly how it has evolved over the last three decades and characterises the BORO Foundational Ontology in three ways: as an ontology of ontological categories, as a constructional ontology of everything that exists and as an ontological architecture. It characterises the bCLEARer methodology. Finally, it mentions two post-ontology areas where BORO is working: de se agentology and de se doxastology.

Presented

C-FORS 2025, C-FORS Summer School in Foundational Ontology, 20-23 May 2025, Oslo, Norway

Author(s)

Chris Partridge (BORO Solutions)