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== '''Schedule''' ==
== '''Schedule''' ==


== February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
== August 27: Introduction to Ontology==
Aristotle
Aristotle
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/What'sWrong.pdf What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/What'sWrong.pdf What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]


== February 9: Ontology of Deontic Entities ==
== September 10: Ontological Realism and Basic Formal Ontology ==
:[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]
 
== February 16: 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]
 
== February 23: Ontological Realism ==
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/IUC.pdf Individuals, Universals and Collections]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/IUC.pdf Individuals, Universals and Collections]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]
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:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyKZKxFx5A Video]
:[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 ==


== March 1: Material Entities and Process Profiles ==  
== September 24: Diseases, Disabilities, Diagnoses ==
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Classifying_Processes.pdf Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology]
Introduction to the Ontology of Medicine
:[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]


== March 8: Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, and Aboutness ==
== October 1: Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, and Aboutness ==
:[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2015/icbo-aboutness.pdf About 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/articles/STIDS-2013.pdf Information Artifact Ontology]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKsupBquok&feature=youtu.be Video 2: About Aboutness]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKsupBquok&feature=youtu.be Video 2: About Aboutness]


== March 22: Document Acts==  
*Mental Health and Disease=
 
 
 
== October 8: How to Keep Track of Absolutely Everything ==
Werner on Referent Tracking
 
== October 15: Document Acts==  
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/document-acts.pdf 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://college.holycross.edu/faculty/aborghin/Articles/Philosophy_of_Food/Borghini_2015_JAEE_WhatIsARecipe.pdf What is a Recipe?]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZzYR6_jho Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZzYR6_jho Video]


== March 29: 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://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Emerging-Media-Understanding-Appreciation/dp/0190260750 Toward a Science of Emerging Media]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/8.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]


== April 5: The Ontology of Classification==
 
== October 22: 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]
 
== October 29: The Ontology of Experimentation, Classification and Measurement==


:[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby]
:[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]


== April 12: Organisms and Environments ==
== November 5: Organisms and Environments ==
 
*Biological Environments
*How to do biology across the Genome
*Human Environments
*The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)
*Environments, Settings and Behavior
*The ontology of relations
*How to understand biological universals
*[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]
*The ontology of biological taxa
*[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The niche]
 
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/eruv.pdf On Place and Space: The Ontology of the Eruv]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzPU5k4vn4 Video]
 
== April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting==
 
Lecture by Colonel Bill Mandrick, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research, Joint Special Operations University


*Basic Formal Ontology: Accurate descriptions of the operational environment
== November 12: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting==
*Network science for situational awareness
*ASCOPE & PMESII
*Defining 'foreign fighters'
*The future of viral conflict
*BFO and the Global Mobility Enterprise
*Common core ontologies


:[http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/philosophie/files/2013/01/2006b.pdf Defining Terrorism]
:[http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/philosophie/files/2013/01/2006b.pdf Defining Terrorism]
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlxZtLnshQ Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlxZtLnshQ Video]


== April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==
== November 19: ==  
 
1:00pm John Beverley: '''Basic Formal Ontology'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Beverley.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RWpgmnUmI Video]
 
1:25pm J. Neil Otte: '''Game Theory Ontology'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Otte.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoIc6wcZpMM Video]
 
1:50pm Kejin Cui: '''Ontology and Spatial Relations Between Land Types'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Cui.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpyjs22W3o Video]
 
2:15pm Brian Donohue: '''Deontic Ontology''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Donohue.pptx Slides]
 
2:40pm Daniel Shaffer: '''The Problem of Customary Law for Legal Ontologies'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Shaffer.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvVQ7mgIyh4 Video]
 
3:05pm Alec Sculley: '''Tolerable Delinquency'''
[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Sculley.pptx Slides]
 
== May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==
 
1:00pm Jeon-Young Kang: '''Qualitative Reasoning with GPS Sensor Data to Estimate Infectious Disease Transmission''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Kang.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbqQOqBTdqo Video]
 
1:30pm Fumiaki Toyoshima: '''Towards an Ontology of Schizophrenia''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Toyoshima.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF1VSup1U3g Video]
 
2:00pm Francesco Franda: '''Defining ‘Terrorism’''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Franda.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3cYFO2_CqE Video]


2:30pm Carter Benson: '''The Problem with Defining ‘Terrorism’''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Benson.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1kkucJlZg Video]
== November 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==


3:00pm Uriah Burke: '''How should BFO classify film?''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Burke.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FBhqvUmVks Video]
== December 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==


== Grading and Related Policies and Services ==
== Grading and Related Policies and Services ==

Revision as of 19:33, 12 March 2018

The Course

This course consists in an overview of central themes in social ontology viewed from a broadly realist perspective. The course will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to those interested in ontological applications, including applications in biomedical informatics.

Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number:

Time: Monday, 1-3:50pm, Fall 2018

Room: 200G Baldy

Instructors: Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters

Office hours: By appointment via email to [1]

Recommended background reading

R. Arp, B. Smith, A. D. Spear, Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology

Schedule

August 27: Introduction to Ontology

Aristotle

What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?
Austrian Philosophy
Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology
Pieces of a Theory
Slides
Video

September 10: Ontological Realism and Basic Formal Ontology

Individuals, Universals and Collections
Fiat Objects
Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence
Slides
Video

September 17: Functions, Capabilities, Dispositions

September 24: Diseases, Disabilities, Diagnoses

Introduction to the Ontology of Medicine

October 1: Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, and Aboutness

About Aboutness
Information Artifact Ontology
Slides
Video 1
Video 2: About Aboutness
  • Mental Health and Disease=


October 8: How to Keep Track of Absolutely Everything

Werner on Referent Tracking

October 15: Document Acts

Document Acts
What is a Recipe?
Slides
Video



October 22: Ontology of Deontic Entities

Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Chapter 5
Massively Planned Social Agency
Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality
John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality
Slides Contents
Video:Massively Planned Social Agency
Slides
Video
See also materials here

October 29: The Ontology of Experimentation, Classification and Measurement

The Weight of the Baby
Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales
Slides
Video

November 5: Organisms and Environments

  • Biological Environments
  • Human Environments
  • Environments, Settings and Behavior

November 12: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting

Defining Terrorism
An Ontological Framework for Understanding the Terror-Crime Nexus
Military Ontology
Slides
Video

November 19:

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 here

For academic integrity policy see here

For accessibility services see here

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