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Threedimensionalism | *Threedimensionalism and Fourdimensionalism, 4-Category Ontology, 6-Category Ontology | ||
Emotions, Norms, Values | *Emotions, Norms, Values | ||
Referent Tracking, Aboutness | *Referent Tracking, Aboutness | ||
Genes, Species, Races; Biological categories (Metaphysics After Darwin) | *Genes, Species, Races; Biological categories (Metaphysics After Darwin) | ||
Commanding and Other Social Acts | *Commanding and Other Social Acts | ||
How to Build an Imaging Ontology | *How to Build an Imaging Ontology | ||
Ontology of Poker (2014) The Ontology of Disease (2014) | *Ontology of Poker (2014) | ||
Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality (2014) | *The Ontology of Disease (2014) | ||
Mind, Language and Emotions (2014) | *Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality (2014) | ||
Semantics of Biodiversity (2013) | *Mind, Language and Emotions (2014) | ||
Massively Planned Social Agency (2013) | *Semantics of Biodiversity (2013) | ||
Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community (2013) | *Massively Planned Social Agency (2013) | ||
Intelligence, Defense and Security (2012) | *Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community (2013) | ||
Basic Formal Ontology | *Intelligence, Defense and Security (2012) | ||
*Applied Ontology | |||
Reading: | |||
:Roman Ingarden, ''The Literary Work of Art. An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Language'' | |||
:E. J. Lowe, ''The Four Category Ontology'' | |||
:R. Arp, B. Smith, A. D. Spear, ''Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology'' | |||
== '''Background''' == | == '''Background''' == | ||
Revision as of 16:34, 25 August 2015
- Department of Philosophy: PHI 531. Registration number [1]
Time: Tuesdays, 1-3:50pm, Spring 2016
Room: 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus
Instructor: Barry Smith
Office hours: By appointment via email at [2]
The Course
Topics
- Threedimensionalism and Fourdimensionalism, 4-Category Ontology, 6-Category Ontology
- Emotions, Norms, Values
- Referent Tracking, Aboutness
- Genes, Species, Races; Biological categories (Metaphysics After Darwin)
- Commanding and Other Social Acts
- How to Build an Imaging Ontology
- Ontology of Poker (2014)
- The Ontology of Disease (2014)
- Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality (2014)
- Mind, Language and Emotions (2014)
- Semantics of Biodiversity (2013)
- Massively Planned Social Agency (2013)
- Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community (2013)
- Intelligence, Defense and Security (2012)
- Applied Ontology
Reading:
- Roman Ingarden, The Literary Work of Art. An Investigation on the Borderlines of Ontology, Logic, and Theory of Language
- E. J. Lowe, The Four Category Ontology
- R. Arp, B. Smith, A. D. Spear, Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology
Background
February 2: Introduction to Ontology
February 9: Big Data and How to Overcome the Problems it Causes
February 16 An Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology
February 23: Use of Ontologies in Tracking Systems
March 1: How to Build an Ontology
March 8: Creating Ontologies That Work Together
March 15: Spring Recess
March 22: Document Acts
March 29: The Semantic Web
April 5: Ontology Examples
April 12: Finance Ontology
April 19: The Ontology of Plans
April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1
May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2
Guidance for Presentations and Reports
Grading and Related Policies and Services
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.
For 3 credit hour students, your grade will be determined in five equal portions deriving from:
- 1. class participation (1.5% per class attended),
- 2. results of two quizzes relating to the lab portion of the course
- 3. written description of ontology project (3000 words; deadline December 2),
- 4. Protégé ontology file (deadline November 25),
- 5. class presentation.
For 2 credit hour students, your grade is determined as follows:
- 1. class participation (1.5% per class attended),
- 2. written description of ontology project (4000 words; deadline December 2) (50%),
- 3. class presentation (30%).
For policy regarding incompletes see here
For academic integrity policy see here
For accessibility services see here
