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| == '''The Course''' ==
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| 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.
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| Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number:
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| '''Time''': Monday, 1-3:50pm, Fall 2018
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| '''Room''': 200G Baldy
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| '''Instructors''': [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith] and [http://www.referent-tracking.com/RTU/ceusters_vita.html Werner Ceusters]
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| '''Office hours''': By appointment via email to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu]
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| <div class="noautonum">__TOC__</div>
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| == '''Recommended background reading''' ==
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| :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]''
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| :John R. Searle, ''Making the Social World''
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| :E. J. Lowe, ''The Four Category Ontology''
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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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| == '''Schedule''' ==
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| == February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
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| Aristotle
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/What'sWrong.pdf What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/austrian_philosophy/ Austrian Philosophy]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/napflion.pdf Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/P&M/pieces.pdf Pieces of a Theory]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/1.ppt Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]
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| == February 9: Ontology of Deontic Entities ==
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| :[https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Chapter 5]
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| :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWN4Uo-GjjE Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/SearleIntro.pdf John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/2.pdf Slides] [[Contents]]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video]
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| == February 16: Ontology of Deontic Entities (continued) ==
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| :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/3.pdf Slides]
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| :[https://youtu.be/Hk6Df2geYiQ Video]
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| :See also materials [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Workshop_on_BFO_and_the_Ontology_of_Social_Entities_2016 here]
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| == February 23: Ontological Realism ==
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/IUC.pdf Individuals, Universals and Collections]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]
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| :[http://link.springer.com.gate.lib.buffalo.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs11098-010-9526-z Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/4.pdf Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcyKZKxFx5A Video]
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| == March 1: Material Entities and Process Profiles ==
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Classifying_Processes.pdf Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/material_entities.pdf On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/5.pptx Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmBUNB2amU Video]
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| == March 8: Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, and Aboutness ==
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| :[http://ncor.buffalo.edu/2015/icbo-aboutness.pdf About Aboutness]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/STIDS-2013.pdf Information Artifact Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/6.pptx Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnLE7-8bRHs Video 1]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKsupBquok&feature=youtu.be Video 2: About Aboutness]
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| == March 22: Document Acts==
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/document-acts.pdf Document Acts]
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| :[http://college.holycross.edu/faculty/aborghin/Articles/Philosophy_of_Food/Borghini_2015_JAEE_WhatIsARecipe.pdf What is a Recipe?]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/7.pptx Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRZzYR6_jho Video]
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| == March 29: Money==
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/searle.pdf The Construction of Social Reality]
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| :[http://www.phil.gu.se/posters/festskrift2/mnemo_johansson.pdf Money and Fictions]
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| :[http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Emerging-Media-Understanding-Appreciation/dp/0190260750 Toward a Science of Emerging Media]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/8.ppt Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]
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| == April 5: The Ontology of Classification==
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| :[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby]
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| :[http://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/function1.pdf Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/9.ppt Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]
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| == April 12: Organisms and Environments ==
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| *How to do biology across the Genome
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| *The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)
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| *The ontology of relations
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| *How to understand biological universals
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| *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition]
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| *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/logic_of_classes.pdf The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology]
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| *The ontology of biological taxa
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| *[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The niche]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/eruv.pdf On Place and Space: The Ontology of the Eruv]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzPU5k4vn4 Video]
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| == April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting==
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| Lecture by Colonel Bill Mandrick, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research, Joint Special Operations University
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| *Basic Formal Ontology: Accurate descriptions of the operational environment
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| *Network science for situational awareness
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| *ASCOPE & PMESII
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| *Defining 'foreign fighters'
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| *The future of viral conflict
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| *BFO and the Global Mobility Enterprise
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| *Common core ontologies
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| :[http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/philosophie/files/2013/01/2006b.pdf Defining Terrorism]
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| :[http://www.casede.org/BibliotecaCasede/SOF_RoleCombatingTOC.pdf#page=157 An Ontological Framework for Understanding the Terror-Crime Nexus]
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| :[http://militaryontology.com/ Military Ontology]
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| :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/11.pdf Slides]
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| :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MlxZtLnshQ Video]
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| == April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1==
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| 1:00pm John Beverley: '''Basic Formal Ontology'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Beverley.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_RWpgmnUmI Video]
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| 1:25pm J. Neil Otte: '''Game Theory Ontology'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Otte.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoIc6wcZpMM Video]
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| 1:50pm Kejin Cui: '''Ontology and Spatial Relations Between Land Types'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Cui.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHpyjs22W3o Video]
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| 2:15pm Brian Donohue: '''Deontic Ontology''' [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Donohue.pptx Slides]
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| 2:40pm Daniel Shaffer: '''The Problem of Customary Law for Legal Ontologies'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Shaffer.pptx Slides] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvVQ7mgIyh4 Video]
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| 3:05pm Alec Sculley: '''Tolerable Delinquency'''
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| [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/Sculley.pptx Slides]
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| == May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2==
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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| 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]
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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 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 .
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| Your grade will be determined in three equal portions deriving from:
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| :1. class participation (2.5% per class attended)
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| :2. paper (3000 words; deadline for draft: March 29; deadline for final version: May 3)
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| :3. class presentation (graded according to quality of powerpoint slides, quality of delivery, and quality of response to questions)
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| For policy regarding incompletes see [http://grad.buffalo.edu/Academics/Policies-Procedures/Grading-Procedures.html 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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