Belief, desire, and intention are central notions in mentality and agency. We provide
conceptual and formal foundations for an ontology of those mental entities. In this …

Realizable entities are properties that can be realized in processes of specific correlated
types in which the bearer participates. It will be valuable to create a systematic classification …

Natural necessity is the kind of necessity that is supplied by 'nature': eg, necessarily, a glass
is broken when it is pressed with a certain force. Relevant topics of natural necessity include …

The notion of affordance remains elusive, notwithstanding its importance for the
representation of agency, cognition, and behaviors. This paper lays down a foundation for …

Notwithstanding its centrality to agency and cognition, the concept of affordance is
notoriously difficult to model computationally, partly owing to its conceptually multifaceted …

This paper presents first steps towards a formalization of beliefs. It argues for the multiple
nature of beliefs: the term “belief” can refer to a mental process of taking something to be the …

Roles remain nebulous entities, notwithstanding their extensive interdisciplinary research.
This paper argues through a meta-ontological conceptual tool of grounding that there are …

Diseases, risks of pathological processes and predispositions have been formalized as
dispositions. The relations between those pathological dispositions, however, remain …

Artifacts remain nebulous entities, notwithstanding their relevance to various domains such
as engineering, art and archeology. In this paper we investigate the interconnection …

In this paper we propose adopting the notion of system as the invariant element that delimits
an event. We argue that it provides cohesion among the succession of situations that …