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| == '''The Course''' ==
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| 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.
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| Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number: [http://www.buffalo.edu/class-schedule?switch=showclass&semester=spring&division=GRAD&dept=PHI®num=24232 24232]
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| '''Time''': Tuesdays, 1-3:50pm, Spring 2016
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| '''Room''': 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus
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| '''Instructor''': [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith]
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| '''Office hours''': Tuesdays, 12:15-1pm and by appointment via email to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu]
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| <div class="noautonum">__TOC__</div>
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| == '''Recommended background reading''' ==
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| :R. Arp, B. Smith, A. D. Spear, ''[https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology]''
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| :John R. Searle, ''Making the Social World''
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| :E. J. Lowe, ''The Four Category Ontology''
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| :Roman Ingarden, ''The Literary Work of Art. An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Language''
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| == '''Schedule''' ==
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| == February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
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| Aristotle
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/What'sWrong.pdf What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/austrian_philosophy/ Austrian Philosophy]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/napflion.pdf Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/P&M/pieces.pdf Pieces of a Theory]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/1.ppt Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]
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| == February 9: Ontology of Deontic Entities ==
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| :[https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Chapter 5]
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| :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWN4Uo-GjjE Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/SearleIntro.pdf John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/2.pdf Slides] [[Contents]]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video]
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| == February 16: Ontology of Deontic Entities (continued) ==
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| :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/3.pdf Slides]
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| :[https://youtu.be/Hk6Df2geYiQ Video]
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| :See also materials [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Workshop_on_BFO_and_the_Ontology_of_Social_Entities_2016 here]
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| == February 23: Ontological Realism ==
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/IUC.pdf Individuals, Universals and Collections]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]
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| :[http://link.springer.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-010-9526-z Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyKZKxFx5A Video]
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| == March 1: Material Entities and Process Profiles ==
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Classifying_Processes.pdf Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/material_entities.pdf On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/5.pptx Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmBUNB2amU Video]
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| == March 8: Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, and Aboutness ==
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| :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2015/icbo-aboutness.pdf About Aboutness]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/STIDS-2013.pdf Information Artifact Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/6.pptx Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnLE7-8bRHs Video 1]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKsupBquok&feature=youtu.be Video 2: About Aboutness]
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| == March 22: Document Acts==
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Document-Acts.pdf Document Acts]
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| :[http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/aborghin/Articles/Philosophy_of_Food/Borghini_2015_JAEE_WhatIsARecipe.pdf What is a Recipe?]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/7.pptx Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZzYR6_jho Video]
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| == March 29: Money==
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/searle.pdf The Construction of Social Reality]
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| :[http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/festskrift2/mnemo_johansson.pdf Money and Fictions]
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| :[http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Emerging-Media-Understanding-Appreciation/dp/0190260750 Toward a Science of Emerging Media]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/8.ppt Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]
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| == April 5: The Ontology of Classification==
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| :[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby]
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| :[http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/function1.pdf Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/9.ppx Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]
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| == April 12: Organisms and Environments ==
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| *How to do biology across the Genome
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| *The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)
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| *The ontology of relations
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| *How to understand biological universals
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| *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition]
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| *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/logic_of_classes.pdf The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology]
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| *The ontology of biological taxa
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| *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The niche]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/eruv.pdf On Place and Space: The Ontology of the Eruv]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzPU5k4vn4 Video]
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| == April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting==
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| Lecture by Colonel Bill Mandrick, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research, Joint Special Operations University
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| *Basic Formal Ontology: Accurate descriptions of the operational environment
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| *Network science for situational awareness
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| *ASCOPE & PMESII
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| *Defining 'foreign fighters'
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| *The future of viral conflict
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| *BFO and the Global Mobility Enterprise
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| *Common core ontologies
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| :[http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/philosophie/files/2013/01/2006b.pdf Defining Terrorism]
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| :[http://www.casede.org/BibliotecaCasede/SOF_RoleCombatingTOC.pdf#page=157 An Ontological Framework for Understanding the Terror-Crime Nexus]
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| :[http://militaryontology.com/ Military Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/11.pdf Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlxZtLnshQ Video]
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| == April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==
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| 1:00pm John Beverley: '''Basic Formal Ontology'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Beverley.pptx Slides] [https://youtu.be/mm_xyEv_0Bk Video]
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| 1:25pm J. Neil Otte: '''Game Theory Ontology'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Otte.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY67op_So-0 Video]
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| 1:50pm Kejin Cui: '''Ontology and Spatial Relations Between Land Types'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Cui.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_8LwZL25u4 Video]
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| 2:15pm Brian Donohue: '''Deontic Ontology''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Donohue.pptx Slides]
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| 2:40pm Daniel Shaffer: '''The Problem of Customary Law for Legal Ontologies'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Shaffer.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRWI6EDZE7U Video]
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| 3:05pm Alec Sculley: '''Tolerable Delinquency'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Sculley.pptx Slides]
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| == May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| == '''Grading and Related Policies and Services''' ==
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| 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 .
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| Your grade will be determined in three equal portions deriving from:
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| :1. class participation (2.5% per class attended)
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| :2. paper (3000 words; deadline for draft: March 29; deadline for final version: May 3)
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| :3. class presentation (graded according to quality of powerpoint slides, quality of delivery, and quality of response to questions)
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| For policy regarding incompletes see [http://grad.buffalo.edu/Academics/Policies-Procedures/Grading-Procedures.html here]
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| For academic integrity policy see [http://www.grad.buffalo.edu/policies/academicintegrity.php here]
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| For accessibility services see [http://www.buffalo.edu/accessibility/servc.php here]
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