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	:'''First''', it will explore how to create and use a standard philosophical vocabulary. This will include exploiting modern developments in computational ontology, including the world’s first [https://www.iso.org/standard/74572.html international standard ontology].		:'''First''', it will explore how to create and use a standard philosophical vocabulary. This will include exploiting modern developments in computational ontology, including the world’s first [https://www.iso.org/standard/74572.html international standard ontology].
	:'''Second''', it will explore the ways in which building a restricted philosophical vocabulary can help to arbitrate philosophical disputes in areas such as time, mental content, modality, and obligation.		:'''Second''', it will explore the ways in which building a restricted philosophical vocabulary can help to arbitrate philosophical disputes in areas such as time, mental content, modality, and obligation.
	:'''Third''', it will provide an introduction to the methods of contemporary applied ~~ontological~~ that are being used both inside and outside philosophy.		:'''Third''', it will provide an introduction to the methods of contemporary applied ontology that are being used both inside and outside philosophy.
	:'''Fourth''', it will take students through all the steps involved in writing a paper and submitting it for publication and/or for presentation at a conference. Some of these papers will be authored by teams of up to 3 people (students can write alone, or belong to up to two teams).		:'''Fourth''', it will take students through all the steps involved in writing a paper and submitting it for publication and/or for presentation at a conference. Some of these papers will be authored by teams of up to 3 people (students can write alone, or belong to up to two teams).

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Reading

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	=='''Reading'''==		=='''Reading'''==
			[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Lukasiewicz-on-rails Lukasiewica on rails], paper by A. Brozek
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	''Course Description'': Progress in philosophy has been hampered by the fact that philosophers have no shared, controlled vocabulary which they can use as a common starting point when defining their terms. Even mundane terms like ‘world’, ‘fact’, and ‘harm’ have such a variety of meanings that when competing theories use such terms their defenders can often be accused of talking past one another and of engaging in merely verbal disputes. This is in contrast to what is the case in the natural sciences, where consistent terminology – as codified for example in the Periodic Table and the International Standard System of Units – is recognized as indispensable. To put it bluntly, because of the use of standards, the natural sciences are collectively more successful than philosophers at resolving divergent points-of-view in their respective fields. Of course, the idea of developing a shared system of philosophical terms and definitions has been advanced in different forms already, for example by Aristotle in the ''Categories'', by Leibniz in ''De Arte Combinatoria'', by the early Wittgenstein, and by Carnap in his ''Logical Structure of the World''. Similar methods are nowadays being successfully applied, but this is occurring primarily outside philosophy, in areas such as biomedical informatics and industrial engineering.		''Course Description'': Progress in philosophy has been hampered by the fact that philosophers have no shared, controlled vocabulary which they can use as a common starting point when defining their terms. Even mundane terms like ‘world’, ‘fact’, and ‘harm’ have such a variety of meanings that when competing theories use such terms their defenders can often be accused of talking past one another and of engaging in merely verbal disputes. This is in contrast to what is the case in the natural sciences, where consistent terminology – as codified for example in the Periodic Table and the International Standard System of Units – is recognized as indispensable. To put it bluntly, because of the use of standards, the natural sciences are collectively more successful than philosophers at resolving divergent points-of-view in their respective fields. Of course, the idea of developing a shared system of philosophical terms and definitions has been advanced in different forms already, for example by Aristotle in the ''Categories'', by Leibniz in ''De Arte Combinatoria'', by the early Wittgenstein, and by Carnap in his ''Logical Structure of the World''. Similar methods are nowadays being successfully applied, but this is occurring primarily outside philosophy, in areas such as biomedical informatics and industrial engineering.

	This course will address ~~three~~ goals:		This course will address four goals:

	:'''First''', it will explore how to create and use a standard philosophical vocabulary. This will include exploiting modern developments in computational ontology, including the world’s first [https://www.iso.org/standard/74572.html international standard ontology].		:'''First''', it will explore how to create and use a standard philosophical vocabulary. This will include exploiting modern developments in computational ontology, including the world’s first [https://www.iso.org/standard/74572.html international standard ontology].

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	'''Philosophy on Rails: An Introduction to Ontology'''		'''Philosophy on Rails: An Introduction to Ontology''' Special Topic PHI 579
	~~[[American Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance]]~~
	Special Topic PHI 579

	Fall Semester 2020, Monday 1-3:40pm		Fall Semester 2020, Monday 1-3:40pm

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	'''Philosophy on Rails: An Introduction to Ontology'''		'''Philosophy on Rails: An Introduction to Ontology'''
			[[American Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance]]
	Special Topic PHI 579		Special Topic PHI 579

Phismith at 18:03, 4 December 2020

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	Fall Semester 2020, Monday 1-3:40pm		Fall Semester 2020, Monday 1-3:40pm

	'''Venue:''' ~~Capen 240~~		'''Venue:''' Online

	'''Registration''': Class#: [http://www.buffalo.edu/class-schedule?switch=showclass&semester=fall&division=GRAD&dept=PHI&regnum=24202 24202]		'''Registration''': Class#: [http://www.buffalo.edu/class-schedule?switch=showclass&semester=fall&division=GRAD&dept=PHI&regnum=24202 24202]

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November 30

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	==November 23: Philosophy of Action ==		==November 23: Philosophy of Action ==

	==November 30==		==November 30: Student Projects==

	==December 7: Student Projects (Remote Session) ==		==December 7: Student Projects (Remote Session) ==

Phismith at 17:30, 17 October 2020

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	:[http://bit.ly/2rnIdHE Final part of whole debate]		:[http://bit.ly/2rnIdHE Final part of whole debate]

	==October 26~~: Artificial Intelligence==~~		==October 26: Social Ontology, Norms and Values ==

	~~:"[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02918.pdf Making Artificial Intelligence Meaningful Again]", ''Synthese'', [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02192-y online first]~~

	~~:"[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05833.pdf There is no General Artificial Intelligence"], https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05833.pdf~~

	~~==November 2~~: Social Ontology, Norms and Values ==

	Deontic Entities		Deontic Entities
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	:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Deontic-Entities-in-BFO Slides]		:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Deontic-Entities-in-BFO Slides]
	:[https://search.proquest.com/openview/4ddf6056e26862d1573f674fe123b20b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Social Ontology and Social Normativity]		:[https://search.proquest.com/openview/4ddf6056e26862d1573f674fe123b20b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Social Ontology and Social Normativity]

			==November 2: Artificial Intelligence==

			:"[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02918.pdf Making Artificial Intelligence Meaningful Again]", ''Synthese'', [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02192-y online first]

			:"[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05833.pdf There is no General Artificial Intelligence"], https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05833.pdf

	==November 9: Capabilities ==		==November 9: Capabilities ==

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November 2: Social Ontology, Norms and Values

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	==November 2: Social Ontology, Norms and Values ==		==November 2: Social Ontology, Norms and Values ==

	Deontic Entities ~~in Basic Formal Ontology~~		Deontic Entities

			:Deontology Ontology: Towards an Ontology of Deontic Entities
			::[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ppt/documents/Deontic-Entities-Geneva-July-2016.pdf Slides]
			::[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIJJlnLLWGU Video] (36 minutes)

			:Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality
			::[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/14/Rijeka/Ontology-of-Documents-May-2014-Rijeka.ppt Slides]
			::[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lg4z2up6HI Video] (103 minutes)

			:The Ontology of the Organigram
			::[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/16/Organigram.pdf Slides]
			::[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp3B2GkgaB8 Video] (58 minutes)

			Background
	:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Deontic-Entities-in-BFO Slides]		:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Deontic-Entities-in-BFO Slides]
	:[https://search.proquest.com/openview/4ddf6056e26862d1573f674fe123b20b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Social Ontology and Social Normativity]		:[https://search.proquest.com/openview/4ddf6056e26862d1573f674fe123b20b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Social Ontology and Social Normativity]

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	==October 19: Metaphysics ==		==October 19: Metaphysics ==

	:~~An Introduction~~ to Ontology		:Mind, Language and Emotions: From Austrian Philosophy to Contemporary Realist Ontology
	:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=~~9AsRE437e7I~~ Video]		:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vw3R5UCcDI Video] (67 minutes)
			:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/14/Rijeka/Ontology-of-Documents-May-2014-Rijeka.ppt Slides]

			:What are capabilities?
			:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/kvvq8qjb22rc80k8j7g4w7odi1hkhztz Slides] (60 minutes)
			:[https://youtu.be/gHxDOFXu6CA Video]

	:The Great Debate: John Sowa vs. Barry Smith		:The Great Debate: John Sowa vs. Barry Smith
	:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDJk9xTvdqY Video of BS contribution]		:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDJk9xTvdqY Video of BS contribution] (30 minutes)
	:[http://bit.ly/2row7xT Slides of BS contribution]		:[http://bit.ly/2row7xT Slides of BS contribution]
	:[http://bit.ly/2robKkp First 2 hours of whole debate]		:[http://bit.ly/2robKkp First 2 hours of whole debate]