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== '''Schedule''' ==
== '''Schedule''' ==


== - February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
== February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
Aristotle
Aristotle
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/What'sWrong.pdf What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/What'sWrong.pdf What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]


== - February 9: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology Part 1 ==
== February 9: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology Part 1 ==
:[https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Chapter 5]
:[https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Chapter 5]
:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video]


== - February 16: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology: Part 2 ==
== February 16: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology: Part 2 ==
:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/3.pdf Slides]  
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/3.pdf Slides]  
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:See also materials [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Workshop_on_BFO_and_the_Ontology_of_Social_Entities_2016 here]
:See also materials [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Workshop_on_BFO_and_the_Ontology_of_Social_Entities_2016 here]


== - February 23: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction (continued) ==
== February 23: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction (continued) ==
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/IUC.pdf Individuals, Universals and Collections]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/IUC.pdf Individuals, Universals and Collections]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmBUNB2amU Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmBUNB2amU Video]


== - March 8:  Mind, Language, Truth, Reference and Aboutness ==
== March 8:  Mind, Language, Truth, Reference and Aboutness ==
:[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2015/icbo-aboutness.pdf About Aboutness]
:[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2015/icbo-aboutness.pdf About Aboutness]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/STIDS-2013.pdf Information Artifact Ontology]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/STIDS-2013.pdf Information Artifact Ontology]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZzYR6_jho Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZzYR6_jho Video]


== - March 29: Money==
== March 29: Money==


:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/searle.pdf The Construction of Social Reality]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/searle.pdf The Construction of Social Reality]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]


== - April 5: Partitions, Measurements, Quantities and Units==
== April 5: Partitions, Measurements, Quantities and Units==


:[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby]
:[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]


== - April 12: Organisms, Populations, Species, Environments, Eruvim==
== April 12: Organisms, Populations, Species, Environments, Eruvim==


:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition]
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:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides]


== - April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting==
== April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting==


:[http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/philosophie/files/2013/01/2006b.pdf Defining Terrorism]
:[http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/philosophie/files/2013/01/2006b.pdf Defining Terrorism]
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:[http://militaryontology.com/ Military Ontology]
:[http://militaryontology.com/ Military Ontology]


== - April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==
== April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==


John Beverley: '''Basic Formal Ontology'''
John Beverley: '''Basic Formal Ontology'''
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Alec Sculley: '''Tolerable Delinquency'''
Alec Sculley: '''Tolerable Delinquency'''


== - May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==
== May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==


Jeon-Young Kang: '''Infectious Disease'''
Jeon-Young Kang: '''Infectious Disease'''

Revision as of 18:14, 9 April 2016

The Course

This course consists in an overview of central themes in analytic metaphysics viewed from a broadly realist perspective. We begin with a historical overview of analytic metaphysics and a discussion of general categories such as universals, particulars, processes, dispositions and functions. We then extend these general categories to specific areas such as social reality, documents and document acts, disease, money, and war. The course will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to those interested in ontological applications.

Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number: 24232

Time: Tuesdays, 1-3:50pm, Spring 2016

Room: 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus

Instructor: Barry Smith

Office hours: Tuesdays, 12:15-1pm and by appointment via email to [1]

Recommended background reading

R. Arp, B. Smith, A. D. Spear, Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology
John R. Searle, Making the Social World
E. J. Lowe, The Four Category Ontology
Roman Ingarden, The Literary Work of Art. An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Language

Schedule

February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background

Aristotle

What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?
Austrian Philosophy
Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology
Pieces of a Theory
Slides
Video

February 9: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology Part 1

Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Chapter 5
Massively Planned Social Agency
Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality
John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality
Slides Contents
Video

February 16: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology: Part 2

Massively Planned Social Agency
Slides
Video
See also materials here

February 23: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction (continued)

Individuals, Universals and Collections
Fiat Objects
Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence
Slides
Video

- March 1: Material Entities, Process Profiles and Granular Partitions

Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology
On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology
Slides
Video

March 8: Mind, Language, Truth, Reference and Aboutness

About Aboutness
Information Artifact Ontology
Slides
Video 1
Video 2: About Aboutness

- March 22: Document Acts

Document Acts
What is a Recipe?
Slides
Video

March 29: Money

The Construction of Social Reality
Money and Fictions
Toward a Science of Emerging Media
Slides
Video

April 5: Partitions, Measurements, Quantities and Units

The Weight of the Baby

Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales

Slides
Video

April 12: Organisms, Populations, Species, Environments, Eruvim

Aristotle's Theory of Definition
On Place and Space: The Ontology of the Eruv
Slides

April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting

Defining Terrorism
An Ontological Framework for Understanding the Terror-Crime Nexus
Military Ontology

April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1

John Beverley: Basic Formal Ontology

J. Neil Otte: Game Theory Ontology

Kejin Cui: Ontology and Spatial Relations Between Land Types

Brian Donohue: Deontic Ontology

Daniel Shaffer: Law

Alec Sculley: Tolerable Delinquency

May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2

Jeon-Young Kang: Infectious Disease

Fumiaki Toyoshima: Schizophrenia

Carter Benson: Terrorism

Francesco Franda: Terrorism

Uriah Burke: Film

Ben Lawrence: Drawing

Grading and Related Policies and Services

All students will be required to take an active part in class discussions throughout the semester and to prepare a paper on some relevant topic. The paper should be submitted in a draft version on or before March 29, and in final form on or before May 3. A powerpoint version will be presented in class in one or other of the two closing sessions .

Your grade will be determined in three equal portions deriving from:

1. class participation (2.5% per class attended)
2. paper (3000 words; deadline for draft: March 29; deadline for final version: May 3)
3. class presentation (graded according to quality of powerpoint slides, quality of delivery, and quality of response to questions)

For policy regarding incompletes see here

For academic integrity policy see here

For accessibility services see here