Education

Active materials

2025

• Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, Spring 2025

• Introduction to Philosophy from an Ontological Perspective, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Fall 2025

• Ontology and Artifical Intelligence, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Fall 2025

• Ontology of Economics, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Fall 2025

Legacy materials

2024

• Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, Spring 2024

• Ontology of Economics 2024, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Fall 2024

• Introduction to Philosophy from an Ontological Perspective, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Fall 2024

2023

• Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, Spring 2023

• Nature and Culture, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Fall 2023

2022

• Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, Spring 2022

• Applied Ontology 2022, Spring Semester, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Spring 2022

• Philosophy of Science, University at Buffalo, Department of Philosophy, Fall Semester

2021

• Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence 2021, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, February and May 2021 (with Jobst Landgrebe)
• American Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance, Fall Semester 2021, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (with Jobst Landgrebe)
• Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (Crash Course), October 3-4, 2021, Department of Philosophy and Department of Computer Science, University at Buffalo (with Jobst Landgrebe)

2020

• Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence 2020, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, February and May 2020.
• Philosophy on Rails, Fall Semester 2020, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (with David Limbaugh)

2019

• Ontology and Artificial Intelligence 2019, Department of Philosophy, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, April 2019, (with Jobst Landgrebe)
• Intelligence Analysis: A Crash Course 2019, Fall Semester 2019, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (with David Limbaugh)

2018

• Ontological Engineering 2018, Spring Semester Online Course, Department of Philosophy and Center for Multi-Source Information Fusion, University at Buffalo
• Applied Ontology: An Introduction 2018, Lublin, 14-18 May
• Applied Ontology 2018, Fall Semester, Departments of Philosophy and Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo

2017

• Applied Ontology 2017, Spring Semester Online Course, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
• Advanced Biomedical Ontology 2017, Fall Semester, Departments of Philosophy and Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo

2016

• Analytic Metaphysics 2016, Spring Semester, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
• Biomedical Ontology 2016, Fall Semester, Departments of Philosophy and Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo

2014

• Ontological Engineering 2014, Fall Semester, Department of Industrial Engineering, University at Buffalo

2013

• Ontological Engineering 2013, Fall Semester, Department of Industrial Engineering, University at Buffalo

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Proposed

• Ontology for Data Science

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For teaching between 1977 and 2012 see here

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Tutorials

• How to Develop and Use OBO Foundry Ontologies, Tutorial and Workshop at ICBO, Graz, Austria, July 21, 2012
• Basic Formal Ontology 2.0: Tutorial at ICBO/FOIS, Graz, Austria, July 25, 2012
• Introduction to Protégé, Tutorial, Buffalo, NY, August 11-12, 2012
• Basic Formal Ontology 2.0, Tutorial, Buffalo, NY, August 18-19, 2012
• Tutorial: Information Ontologies for the Intelligence Community, STIDS Conference, November 11, 2013
• Tutorial: Ontology of Military Planning and Operations Assessment, STIDS Conference, November 18, 2014
• Tutorial: Basic Formal Ontology 2015, International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Lisbon, 2015
• Systems Engineering Boot Camp, University at Buffalo, January 26, 2018 Vuppula version
• Tutorial: Basic Formal Ontology. Industrial Ontologies Foundry, NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, April 10, 2025 (Video)

Streaming video ontology training courses

• An Introduction to Ontology: From Aristotle to the Universal Core (2009)
• An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology (2008)
• From Basic Formal Ontology to the Information Artifact Ontology