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


== - February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
== February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
*Aristotle
Aristotle
*Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/What'sWrong.pdf What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?]
*Husserl and the Polish School
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/austrian_philosophy/ Austrian Philosophy]
*Contemporary Analytic Metaphysics
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/napflion.pdf Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology]
*Universals and Particulars
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/P&M/pieces.pdf Pieces of a Theory]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/1.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]
 
== February 9: Ontology of Deontic Entities ==
:[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]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWN4Uo-GjjE Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/SearleIntro.pdf John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/2.pdf Slides] [[Contents]]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video]
 
== February 16: Ontology of Deontic Entities (continued) ==
:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/3.pdf Slides]
:[https://youtu.be/Hk6Df2geYiQ Video]
:See also materials [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Workshop_on_BFO_and_the_Ontology_of_Social_Entities_2016 here]


:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/P&M/pieces.pdf Pieces of a Theory]
== February 23: Ontological Realism ==
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/IUC.pdf Individuals, Universals and Collections]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]
:[http://link.springer.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-010-9526-z Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyKZKxFx5A Video]
 
== March 1: Material Entities and Process Profiles ==
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Classifying_Processes.pdf Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/material_entities.pdf On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/5.pptx Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmBUNB2amU Video]
 
== March 8:  Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, and 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/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/6.pptx Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnLE7-8bRHs Video 1]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKsupBquok&feature=youtu.be Video 2: About Aboutness]
 
== March 22: Document Acts==
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/document-acts.pdf Document Acts]
:[http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/aborghin/Articles/Philosophy_of_Food/Borghini_2015_JAEE_WhatIsARecipe.pdf What is a Recipe?]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/7.pptx Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZzYR6_jho Video]
 
== March 29: Money==
 
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/searle.pdf The Construction of Social Reality]
:[http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/festskrift2/mnemo_johansson.pdf Money and Fictions]
:[http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Emerging-Media-Understanding-Appreciation/dp/0190260750 Toward a Science of Emerging Media]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/8.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]
 
== April 5: The Ontology of Classification==
 
:[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby]
:[http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/function1.pdf Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/9.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]
 
== April 12: Organisms and Environments ==
 
*How to do biology across the Genome
*The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)
*The ontology of relations
*How to understand biological universals
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition]
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/logic_of_classes.pdf The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology]
*The ontology of biological taxa
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The niche]


[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/1.ppt Slides]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/eruv.pdf On Place and Space: The Ontology of the Eruv]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzPU5k4vn4 Video]


== - February 9: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology ==
== April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting==
*[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]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWN4Uo-GjjE Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality]
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/SearleIntro.pdf John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality]


*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/2.pdf Slides]
Lecture by Colonel Bill Mandrick, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research, Joint Special Operations University
::Realizables 16
::Social Entities and Culture 25
::Sanction 33
::Knowledge-down-a-wire 37
::Mutual Dependence 45
::Generic Dependence 51
::What is a language? 62
::Thomas Reid / Miniature Civil Society / Gesture and Sanctions 68
::Adolf Reinach: Inventor of Speech Act Theory 78
::J. L. Austin 119
::J. R. Searle 123
::Towards Obligation 150
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video]


== - February 16: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology: Part 2 ==
*Basic Formal Ontology: Accurate descriptions of the operational environment
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/3.pdf Slides]
*Network science for situational awareness
*[https://youtu.be/Hk6Df2geYiQ Video]
*ASCOPE & PMESII
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
*Defining 'foreign fighters'
*The future of viral conflict
*BFO and the Global Mobility Enterprise
*Common core ontologies


== - February 23: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction, Part 2 ==
:[http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/philosophie/files/2013/01/2006b.pdf Defining Terrorism]
*Three-Dimensionsalism and Four-Dimensionalism
:[http://www.casede.org/BibliotecaCasede/SOF_RoleCombatingTOC.pdf#page=157  An Ontological Framework for Understanding the Terror-Crime Nexus]
*Universals and Instances
:[http://militaryontology.com/ Military Ontology]
*Fiat Objects
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/11.pdf Slides]
*Sites and Boundaries
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlxZtLnshQ Video]
:[http://link.springer.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-010-9526-z Maureen Donnelly, "Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence"]
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyKZKxFx5A Video]


== - March 1: Material Entities, Process Profiles and Granular Partitions==  
== April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Classifying_Processes.pdf Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology]
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/material_entities.pdf On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology]


*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vw3R5UCcDI The Primacy of the Intentional]
1:00pm John Beverley: '''Basic Formal Ontology'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Beverley.pptx Slides] [https://youtu.be/mm_xyEv_0Bk Video]


== - March 8: Truth, Reference and Aboutness ==
1:25pm J. Neil Otte: '''Game Theory Ontology'''
*[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/truthmakers/ Truthmakers]
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Otte.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY67op_So-0 Video]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKsupBquok&feature=youtu.be About Aboutness]


== - March 15: Spring Recess==
1:50pm Kejin Cui: '''Ontology and Spatial Relations Between Land Types'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Cui.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_8LwZL25u4 Video]


== - March 22: Document Acts==
2:15pm Brian Donohue: '''Deontic Ontology''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Donohue.pptx Slides]
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Document-Acts.pdf Document Acts]


== - March 29: Money==
2:40pm Daniel Shaffer: '''The Problem of Customary Law for Legal Ontologies'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Shaffer.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRWI6EDZE7U Video]


[http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/festskrift2/mnemo_johansson.pdf Money and Fictions]
3:05pm Alec Sculley: '''Tolerable Delinquency'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Sculley.pptx Slides]


== - April 5: Obligations and Norms==
== May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==


== - April 12: Populations, Communities, Groups, Organizations==
1:00pm Jeon-Young Kang: '''Qualitative Reasoning with GPS Sensor Data to Estimate Infectious Disease Transmission''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Kang.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LydZBtN-FeA Video]


== - April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting==
1:30pm Fumiaki Toyoshima: '''Towards an Ontology of Schizophrenia''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Toyoshima.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISxtIgsmF0s Video]


[http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/philosophie/files/2013/01/2006b.pdf Defining Terrorism]
2:00pm Francesco Franda: '''Defining ‘Terrorism’''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Franda.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLf8mpxQtNU Video]


== - April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==
2:30pm Carter Benson: '''The Problem with Defining ‘Terrorism’''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Benson.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwnfhQNoXck Video]


== - May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==
3:00pm Uriah Burke: '''How should BFO classify film?''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Burke.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEl7WQ83KS0 Video]


== '''Grading and Related Policies and Services''' ==
== '''Grading and Related Policies and Services''' ==

Latest revision as of 20:16, 17 August 2017

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: Ontology of Deontic Entities

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: Ontology of Deontic Entities (continued)

Massively Planned Social Agency
Slides
Video
See also materials here

February 23: Ontological Realism

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

March 1: Material Entities and Process Profiles

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

March 8: Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, 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: The Ontology of Classification

The Weight of the Baby
Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales
Slides
Video

April 12: Organisms and Environments

On Place and Space: The Ontology of the Eruv
Slides
Video

April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting

Lecture by Colonel Bill Mandrick, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research, Joint Special Operations University

  • Basic Formal Ontology: Accurate descriptions of the operational environment
  • Network science for situational awareness
  • ASCOPE & PMESII
  • Defining 'foreign fighters'
  • The future of viral conflict
  • BFO and the Global Mobility Enterprise
  • Common core ontologies
Defining Terrorism
An Ontological Framework for Understanding the Terror-Crime Nexus
Military Ontology
Slides
Video

April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1

1:00pm John Beverley: Basic Formal Ontology Slides Video

1:25pm J. Neil Otte: Game Theory Ontology Slides Video

1:50pm Kejin Cui: Ontology and Spatial Relations Between Land Types Slides Video

2:15pm Brian Donohue: Deontic Ontology Slides

2:40pm Daniel Shaffer: The Problem of Customary Law for Legal Ontologies Slides Video

3:05pm Alec Sculley: Tolerable Delinquency Slides

May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2

1:00pm Jeon-Young Kang: Qualitative Reasoning with GPS Sensor Data to Estimate Infectious Disease Transmission Slides Video

1:30pm Fumiaki Toyoshima: Towards an Ontology of Schizophrenia Slides Video

2:00pm Francesco Franda: Defining ‘Terrorism’ Slides Video

2:30pm Carter Benson: The Problem with Defining ‘Terrorism’ Slides Video

3:00pm Uriah Burke: How should BFO classify film? Slides Video

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