== '''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''': [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith] 

'''Office hours''': By appointment via email to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu] 

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== '''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
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/1.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]

== 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]
:[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]

== 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]

== Ontological Realism ==
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyKZKxFx5A Video]

== 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]

== 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]

== 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]

== 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://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/8.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]

== The Ontology of Classification==

:[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]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]

== Organisms and Environments ==

:[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/smith/articles/niches.pdf The niche]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzPU5k4vn4 Video]

== Debate with John Searle on Free-Standing Y-Terms ==
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaQ7Q5I4kj4 John Searle: Language and Social Ontology]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBWXz-Ot0mI Barry Smith: Debate with John Searle]

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