Analytic Metaphysics (2024)

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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.

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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

Slides
Video

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

Fiat Objects
Slides
Video

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

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

Document Acts

Document Acts
What is a Recipe?
Slides
Video

Money

The Construction of Social Reality
Money and Fictions
Slides
Video

The Ontology of Classification

Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales
Granular Partitions
Slides
Video

Organisms and Environments

Aristotle's Theory of Definition
The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology
The niche
Slides
Video

Debate with John Searle on Free-Standing Y-Terms

John Searle: Language and Social Ontology
Barry Smith: Debate with John Searle

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