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| | | See [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php?title=Analytic_Metaphysics here] |
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| :Department of Philosophy: PHI 531. Registration number [http://www.buffalo.edu/class-schedule?switch=showclass&semester=fall&division=GRAD&dept=PHI®num= ]
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| '''Time''': Tuesdays, 1-3:50pm, Spring 2016
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| '''Room''': 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus
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| '''Instructor''': [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith]
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| '''Office hours''': By appointment via email at [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu]
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| == '''The Course''' ==
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| Topics
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| *Universals and Particulars
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| *Three-Dimensionalism and Four-Dimensionalism
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| *Qualities, Roles and Dispositions
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| *Truth, Reference and Aboutness
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| *Mind and Language
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| *Commanding and Other Social Acts
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| *Emotions, Norms, Values
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| *Mind and Language
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| *Actions, Intentions, Plans
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| *Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality (2014)
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| *Laws and Obligations
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| *Massively Planned Social Agency
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| *Science
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| *Populations, Species, and Other Biological Categories
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| *Disease
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| *Wars and Warfighting
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| Reading:
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| :Roman Ingarden, ''The Literary Work of Art. An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Language''
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| :E. J. Lowe, ''The Four Category Ontology''
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| :R. Arp, B. Smith, A. D. Spear, ''Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology''
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| == '''Background''' ==
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| ==February 2: Introduction to Analytical Metaphysics==
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| *Aristotle
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| *Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein
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| *Husserl and the Polish School
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| *Contemporary Analytical Metaphysics
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| ==February 9: 3-dimensionalism and 4-dimensionalism==
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| *Eddy Zemach
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| *E. J. Lowe
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| *Basic Formal Ontology
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| ==February 16 An Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology==
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| ==February 23: Use of Ontologies in Tracking Systems ==
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| ==March 1: How to Build an Ontology==
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| ==March 8: Creating Ontologies That Work Together==
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| ==March 15: Spring Recess==
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| ==March 22: Document Acts==
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| ==March 29: The Semantic Web==
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| ==April 5: Ontology Examples==
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| ==April 12: Finance Ontology==
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| ==April 19: The Ontology of Plans==
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| ==April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==
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| ==May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==
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| == '''Guidance for Presentations and Reports '''==
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| == '''Grading and Related Policies and Services''' ==
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| All students will be required to take an active part in class discussions throughout the semester. In addition they will be required to design and complete an ontology project, including written description, and brief presentation of the project in class. Students enrolled in the practical segment will be required to create a Protégé file to accompany their ontology project, and also to complete quizzes designed to gauge developing competence in the use of the Protégé Ontology Editor and SPARQL query language.
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| For 3 credit hour students, your grade will be determined in five equal portions deriving from:
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| :1. class participation (1.5% per class attended),
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| :2. results of two quizzes relating to the lab portion of the course
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| :3. written description of ontology project (3000 words; deadline December 2),
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| :4. Protégé ontology file (deadline November 25),
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| :5. class presentation.
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| For 2 credit hour students, your grade is determined as follows:
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| :1. class participation (1.5% per class attended),
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| :2. written description of ontology project (4000 words; deadline December 2) (50%),
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| :3. class presentation (30%).
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| For policy regarding incompletes see [http://undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu/policies/grading/explanation.shtml here]
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| For academic integrity policy see [http://www.grad.buffalo.edu/policies/academicintegrity.php here]
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| For accessibility services see [http://www.buffalo.edu/accessibility/servc.php here]
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