Intrecci meta-ontologici tra filosofia e informatica

What might information-systems ontologists learn from philosophical ontologists? And vice versa? The aim of this paper is to answer these questions by analyzing presuppositions and mutual connections of the meta-ontological investigation in philosophy and information technology (it). First, we explore the philosophical debate, within which meta-ontology deals with the meaning of the question “what is there?” and with the (correct) methodology of ontology as a discipline. Second, we discuss the diffusion of the adequatist philosophical perspective in it and how computer scientists generally adopt such a perspective by circumscribing the purpose of the ontological investigation. Finally, we show that it approaches to meta-ontology are mainly addressed to the ontological design and that it approaches tacitly underlie part of the philosophical debate.