== '''The Course''' == This course will provide an introduction to ontology and its applications at the beginning graduate-student level. We will describe the roots of contemporary ontology in classical metaphysics, explain how ontology now plays a role in data science and information fusion, and outline a series of applications of ontology in the biomedical and social sciences. Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number: ##### '''Time''': Monday, 1-3:50pm, Fall 2018 '''Room''': 200G Baldy '''Instructors''': [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith] and [http://www.referent-tracking.com/RTU/ceusters_vita.html Werner Ceusters] '''Office hours''': By appointment via email to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu]
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== '''Recommended background reading''' == :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]'' == '''Schedule''' == == August 27: Introduction to Ontology== :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/1.ppt Slides] :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video] == September 10: Ontological Realism and Basic Formal Ontology == :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/IUC.pdf Individuals, Universals and Collections] :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects] :[http://link.springer.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-010-9526-z Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence] :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides] :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyKZKxFx5A Video] *[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] == September 17: Functions, Capabilities, Dispositions == == September 24: Diseases, Disabilities, Diagnoses == Introduction to the Ontology of Medicine == October 1: Mental Health and Disease == == October 8: Introduction to Referent Tracking== == October 15: Organisms and Environments == *Biological Environments *Human Environments *The Microbiome *Environments, Settings and Behavior :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/napflion.pdf Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology] == October 22: The Ontology of Experimentation, Classification and Measurement== :[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby] :[http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/function1.pdf Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales] :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/9.ppt Slides] :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video] == October 29: 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] == November 5: 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] == November 12: 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] :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWN4Uo-GjjE Document Acts and the Ontology of 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]] :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video] :[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] == November 19: == The Ontology of Organizations == November 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1== == December 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2== == Grading and Related Policies and Services == 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 . Your grade will be determined in three equal portions deriving from: :1. class participation (2.5% per class attended) :2. paper (3000 words; deadline for draft: March 29; deadline for final version: May 3) :3. class presentation (graded according to quality of powerpoint slides, quality of delivery, and quality of response to questions) For policy regarding incompletes see [http://grad.buffalo.edu/Academics/Policies-Procedures/Grading-Procedures.html here] For academic integrity policy see [http://www.grad.buffalo.edu/policies/academicintegrity.php here] For accessibility services see [http://www.buffalo.edu/accessibility/servc.php here]