In Denmark, all higher education programs must include a course on
philosophy of science. Therefore, a group of researchers at Copenhagen Business
School (CBS) are developing a smartphone application where information
about central theoretical paradigms and concepts from philosophy of science
can be visualized and disseminated in an easily accessible and systematic manner.
This will be achieved by entering structured knowledge about concepts
from philosophy of science in both Danish and English into a terminology and
knowledge base which will provide the opportunity to “navigate in conceptual
landscapes” (here used metaphorically for terminological ontologies) in the
same way as we navigate in maps. The result of the project will be a tool that
can help students in their studies and support their information retrieval. The
project is based on existing technologies and research in knowledge organization
and knowledge management. In this paper we will present the first version
of a terminological ontology of central paradigms.