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This course presents an introduction to ontology from a philosophical perspective. Topics to be dealt with include the ontology of deontic entities (such as claims, obligations, laws), realism vs anti-realism (and why realism is better), things vs. processes, ontology of language, ontology of emotions, ontology of documents and other information artifacts, money, and the environments in which organisms live.
This course presents an introduction to ontology from a philosophical perspective. Topics to be dealt with include the ontology of deontic entities (such as claims, obligations, laws), realism vs anti-realism (and why realism is better), things vs. processes, ontology of language, ontology of emotions, ontology of documents and other information artifacts, money, and the environments in which organisms live.


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


'''Time''': Asynchronous online
'''Time''': Asynchronous online
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== Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
== Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background==
Aristotle
Aristotle
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/What'sWrong.pdf What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/austrian_philosophy/ Austrian Philosophy]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/napflion.pdf Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/book/P&M/pieces.pdf Pieces of a Theory]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/1.ppt Slides]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/1.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZG0-71Qk6s Video]
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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]
:[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]
:[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/articles/SearleIntro.pdf John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/2.pdf Slides] [[Contents]]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/2.pdf Slides] [[Contents]]
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== Ontological Realism ==
== Ontological Realism ==
:[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]
:[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]
:[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]
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:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/searle.pdf The Construction of Social Reality]
:[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.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]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/8.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video]
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== The Ontology of Classification==
== The Ontology of Classification==


:[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://hem.passagen.se/ijohansson/function1.pdf Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/partitions.pdf Granular Partitions]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/9.ppt Slides]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/9.ppt Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Y5sfnvd5Y Video]
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== Organisms and Environments ==
== Organisms and Environments ==


*How to do biology across the Genome
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition]
*The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/logic_of_classes.pdf The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology]
*The ontology of relations
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The niche]
*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]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzPU5k4vn4 Video]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzPU5k4vn4 Video]


== Debate with John Searle on Free-Standing Y-Terms ==
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaQ7Q5I4kj4 John Searle: Language and Social Ontology]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBWXz-Ot0mI Barry Smith: Debate with John Searle]


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

Latest revision as of 18:14, 25 April 2024

The Course

This course presents an introduction to ontology from a philosophical perspective. Topics to be dealt with include the ontology of deontic entities (such as claims, obligations, laws), realism vs anti-realism (and why realism is better), things vs. processes, ontology of language, ontology of emotions, ontology of documents and other information artifacts, money, and the environments in which organisms live.

Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598.

Registration number:

Time: Asynchronous online

Room: N/A

Instructor: Barry Smith

Office hours: By appointment via email to [1]

Recommended background reading

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

Schedule

Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background

Aristotle

Slides
Video

Ontology of Deontic Entities

Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Chapter 5
Massively Planned Social Agency
John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality
Slides Contents
Video

Ontology of Deontic Entities (continued)

Massively Planned Social Agency
Slides
Video
See also materials here

Ontological Realism

Fiat Objects
Slides
Video

Material Entities and Process Profiles

Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology
On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology
Slides
Video

Mind, Language, Intentionality, Emotions, Truth, and Aboutness

About Aboutness
Information Artifact Ontology
Slides
Video 1
Video 2: About Aboutness

Document Acts

Document Acts
What is a Recipe?
Slides
Video

Money

The Construction of Social Reality
Money and Fictions
Slides
Video

The Ontology of Classification

Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales
Granular Partitions
Slides
Video

Organisms and Environments

Aristotle's Theory of Definition
The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology
The niche
Slides
Video

Debate with John Searle on Free-Standing Y-Terms

John Searle: Language and Social Ontology
Barry Smith: Debate with John Searle

Grading and Related Policies and Services

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For academic integrity policy see here

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