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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] | :[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] | ||
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/SearleIntro.pdf John Searle: From Speech Acts to 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]] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/2.pdf Slides] [[Contents]] | ||
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:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects] | ||
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides] | ||
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:[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] | ||
:[http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/festskrift2/mnemo_johansson.pdf Money and Fictions] | :[http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/festskrift2/mnemo_johansson.pdf Money and Fictions] | ||
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/8.ppt Slides] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/8.ppt Slides] | ||
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== The Ontology of Classification== | == The Ontology of Classification== | ||
:[http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/function1.pdf Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales] | :[http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/function1.pdf Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales] | ||
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/partitions.pdf Granular Partitions] | |||
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/9.ppt Slides] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/9.ppt Slides] | ||
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*How to do biology across the Genome | *How to do biology across the Genome | ||
*The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) | *The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) | ||
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition] | *[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] | *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/logic_of_classes.pdf The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology] | ||
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The niche] | *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The niche] | ||
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides] | ||
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Revision as of 13:02, 28 March 2024
The Course
This course presents an introduction to ontology from a philosophical perspective. Topics to be dealt with include the ontology of deontic entities (such as claims, obligations, laws), realism vs anti-realism (and why realism is better), things vs. processes, ontology of language, ontology of emotions, ontology of documents and other information artifacts, money, and the environments in which organisms live.
Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number:
Time: Asynchronous online
Room: N/A
Instructor: Barry Smith
Office hours: By appointment via email to [1]
Recommended background reading
- 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
Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background
Aristotle
Ontology of Deontic Entities
- Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Chapter 5
- Massively Planned Social Agency
- John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality
- Slides Contents
- Video
Ontology of Deontic Entities (continued)
- Massively Planned Social Agency
- Slides
- Video
- See also materials here
Ontological Realism
Material Entities and Process Profiles
- Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology
- On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology
- Slides
- Video
Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, and Aboutness
Document Acts
Money
The Ontology of Classification
Organisms and Environments
- How to do biology across the Genome
- The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)
- Aristotle's Theory of Definition
- The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology
- The niche
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