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== '''The Course''' ==


This course provides an introduction to central themes in the history of philosophy viewed from an ontological perspective. The course is designed to be of interest to both philosophers and those with a background in computer and information science. Topics treated will include:  
Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number:
a brief history of ontology from Aristotle to Kant


1. Ontology as a Branch of Philosophy
Instructor: [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith]
Video • Slides
A brief history of ontology
Semantically enhanced publishing
GO: The most successful ontology thus far
Aristotle's Metaphysics and Categories
The Ontological Square
Granular partitions
Aristotle vs. Kant


2. Ontology and Logic
'''Office hours''': By appointment via email to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu]
Video • Slides
David Armstrong's Spreadsheet Ontology
Fantology: The error of assuming that logic ('F(a)') is the guide to ontological form
The confusion of universals and properties
Universals and the Boolean organization of the world of classes
First order logic with universal terms (FOLWUT)


3. The Ontology of Social Reality
1 credit-hour asynchronous online course for masters-level students and advanced undergraduates. No backgroud in philosophy or ontology is presupposed.
Video • Slides
Speech acts
The money in your bank account
War and chess
Debts
Institutions
Searle's naturalism and its problems
Objects vs. representations
Hernando de Soto and The Mystery of Capital
Ontology of the credit crunch


4. Why I Am No Longer a Philosopher (or: Ontology Leaving the Mother Ship of Philosophy)
Fall 2024
Video • Slides
How psychology became a scientific discipline independent of philosophy in the 19th century
Reasons for founding a new discipline The rise of ontology as an independent discipline
Research centers, funding, methods, journals, peer review, national and international conferences, teaching
Practical applications of ontology
Typical results  of the founding of a new discipline
Towards a career path for ontologists


5. Why Computer Science Needs Philosophy
== '''The Course''' ==
Video • Slides
Today's information-driven science faces a vast new problem of data unification
In medicine, this problem can be of life-and-death significance
The organization that is HL7
Ontology 101: Why computer-science ontology needs common sense
Does France exist?
Why computer scientists prefer a view of ontology as conceptual modeling
The alternative: scientific ontologies
Towards ontology (science)


6. Ontology and the Semantic Web
This course provides an introduction to central themes in the history of philosophy viewed from an ontological perspective. The course is designed to be of interest to both philosophers and those with a background in computer and information science. Topics treated will include:
Video • Slides
Examples of Semantic Web ontologies
Simple syllogisms and beyond
Problems with XML
Clay Shirky: Why the Semantic Web would be a utopia
Blooming 'lite' ontologies
Why ontology requires thinking
To move in the right direction, the Semantic Web needs (inter alia) a guiding upper level ontology
CYC, SUMO, DOLCE, BFO


7. Towards a Standard Upper Level Ontology
1. a brief history of ontology from Aristotle to the Human Genome Project.
Video • Slides
2. the ontology of social reality
Scientific ontologies have special features
3. ontology leaving the mother ship of philosophy
Building scientific ontologies which work together demands a common set of ontological relations
4. why computer science needs philosophy
Basic Formal Ontology: benefits of coordination
5. the Semantic Web
Users of BFO
6. towards a standard top-level ontology
Continuants, occurrents, realizables
7. ontology and the Federal Government Data Integration Initiative (anno 2009)
Specific dependence, generic dependence, information artifacts
8. the meaning of life
Dispositions, roles, functions
Diseases and disorders: the Ontology of General Medical Science
 
8. The Universal Core: Ontology and the US Federal Government Data Integration Initiative
Video • Slides
The DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy
The Universal Core (UCore) Taxonomy and Semantic Layer
Reasoning with OWL DL
Manging extension ontologies
Example: Command and Control
Information entities
The UCore change management process
How UCore SL helps
 
Full deck of slides in handout form
Background reading
Course details
Testimonial
 
Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number:


'''Time''': Asynchronous on-line, Fall 2024
'''Time''': Asynchronous on-line, Fall 2024


'''Room''': N/A
'''Room''': N/A
'''Instructor''': [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith]
'''Office hours''': By appointment via email to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu]


== '''Recommended background reading''' ==
== '''Recommended background reading''' ==

Revision as of 14:24, 16 March 2024

Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number:

Instructor: Barry Smith

Office hours: By appointment via email to [1]

1 credit-hour asynchronous online course for masters-level students and advanced undergraduates. No backgroud in philosophy or ontology is presupposed.

Fall 2024

The Course

This course provides an introduction to central themes in the history of philosophy viewed from an ontological perspective. The course is designed to be of interest to both philosophers and those with a background in computer and information science. Topics treated will include:

1. a brief history of ontology from Aristotle to the Human Genome Project. 2. the ontology of social reality 3. ontology leaving the mother ship of philosophy 4. why computer science needs philosophy 5. the Semantic Web 6. towards a standard top-level ontology 7. ontology and the Federal Government Data Integration Initiative (anno 2009) 8. the meaning of life

Time: Asynchronous on-line, Fall 2024

Room: N/A

Recommended background reading

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