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== | == February 2: 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/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: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology Part 1 == | ||
:[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] | ||
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video] | :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Vefe5p6p4 Video] | ||
== | == February 16: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology: Part 2 == | ||
:[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency] | :[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaFnMesr6uQ Massively Planned Social Agency] | ||
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/3.pdf Slides] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/3.pdf Slides] | ||
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:See also materials [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Workshop_on_BFO_and_the_Ontology_of_Social_Entities_2016 here] | :See also materials [http://ncorwiki.buffalo.edu/index.php/Workshop_on_BFO_and_the_Ontology_of_Social_Entities_2016 here] | ||
== | == February 23: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction (continued) == | ||
:[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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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmBUNB2amU Video] | :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmBUNB2amU Video] | ||
== | == March 8: Mind, Language, Truth, Reference 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=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://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/searle.pdf The Construction of Social Reality] | ||
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:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video] | :[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-wmjYbcDBg Video] | ||
== | == April 5: Partitions, Measurements, Quantities and Units== | ||
:[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, Populations, Species, Environments, Eruvim== | ||
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bio/berg.pdf Aristotle's Theory of Definition] | ||
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:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides] | :[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/courses16/Analytic_Metaphysics/10.pdf Slides] | ||
== | == April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting== | ||
:[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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:[http://militaryontology.com/ Military Ontology] | :[http://militaryontology.com/ Military Ontology] | ||
== | == April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1== | ||
John Beverley: '''Basic Formal Ontology''' | John Beverley: '''Basic Formal Ontology''' | ||
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Alec Sculley: '''Tolerable Delinquency''' | Alec Sculley: '''Tolerable Delinquency''' | ||
== | == May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2== | ||
Jeon-Young Kang: '''Infectious Disease''' | Jeon-Young Kang: '''Infectious Disease''' | ||
Revision as of 18:14, 9 April 2016
The Course
This course consists in an overview of central themes in analytic metaphysics viewed from a broadly realist perspective. We begin with a historical overview of analytic metaphysics and a discussion of general categories such as universals, particulars, processes, dispositions and functions. We then extend these general categories to specific areas such as social reality, documents and document acts, disease, money, and war. The course will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to those interested in ontological applications.
Department of Philosophy: Special Topics PHI 598. Registration number: 24232
Time: Tuesdays, 1-3:50pm, Spring 2016
Room: 141 Park Hall, UB North Campus
Instructor: Barry Smith
Office hours: Tuesdays, 12:15-1pm and by appointment via email to [1]
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
Schedule
February 2: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction and Historical Background
Aristotle
- What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?
- Austrian Philosophy
- Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology
- Pieces of a Theory
- Slides
- Video
February 9: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology Part 1
- 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
February 16: Roles, Dispositions and Social Ontology: Part 2
- Massively Planned Social Agency
- Slides
- Video
- See also materials here
February 23: Analytic Metaphysics: Introduction (continued)
- Individuals, Universals and Collections
- Fiat Objects
- Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence
- Slides
- Video
- March 1: Material Entities, Process Profiles and Granular Partitions
- Classifying Processes: An Essay in Applied Ontology
- On Classifying Material Entities in Basic Formal Ontology
- Slides
- Video
March 8: Mind, Language, Truth, Reference and Aboutness
- March 22: Document Acts
March 29: Money
- The Construction of Social Reality
- Money and Fictions
- Toward a Science of Emerging Media
- Slides
- Video
April 5: Partitions, Measurements, Quantities and Units
Functions, Function Concepts, and Scales
April 12: Organisms, Populations, Species, Environments, Eruvim
April 19: Terrorism, Wars and Warfighting
- Defining Terrorism
- An Ontological Framework for Understanding the Terror-Crime Nexus
- Military Ontology
April 26: Presentations of Student Projects 1
John Beverley: Basic Formal Ontology
J. Neil Otte: Game Theory Ontology
Kejin Cui: Ontology and Spatial Relations Between Land Types
Brian Donohue: Deontic Ontology
Daniel Shaffer: Law
Alec Sculley: Tolerable Delinquency
May 3: Presentations of Student Projects 2
Jeon-Young Kang: Infectious Disease
Fumiaki Toyoshima: Schizophrenia
Carter Benson: Terrorism
Francesco Franda: Terrorism
Uriah Burke: Film
Ben Lawrence: Drawing
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
