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| 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:
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| a brief history of ontology from Aristotle to Kant
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| 1. Ontology as a Branch of Philosophy
| | Instructor: [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith] |
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| A brief history of ontology
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| Semantically enhanced publishing
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| GO: The most successful ontology thus far
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| Aristotle's Metaphysics and Categories
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| The Ontological Square
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| Granular partitions
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| Aristotle vs. Kant
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| 2. Ontology and Logic
| | '''Office hours''': By appointment via email to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu] |
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| David Armstrong's Spreadsheet Ontology
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| Fantology: The error of assuming that logic ('F(a)') is the guide to ontological form
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| The confusion of universals and properties
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| Universals and the Boolean organization of the world of classes
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| First order logic with universal terms (FOLWUT)
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| 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. |
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| Speech acts
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| The money in your bank account
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| War and chess
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| Debts
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| Institutions
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| Searle's naturalism and its problems
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| Objects vs. representations
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| Hernando de Soto and The Mystery of Capital
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| Ontology of the credit crunch
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| 4. Why I Am No Longer a Philosopher (or: Ontology Leaving the Mother Ship of Philosophy)
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| How psychology became a scientific discipline independent of philosophy in the 19th century
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| Reasons for founding a new discipline The rise of ontology as an independent discipline
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| Research centers, funding, methods, journals, peer review, national and international conferences, teaching
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| Practical applications of ontology
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| Typical results of the founding of a new discipline
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| Towards a career path for ontologists
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| 5. Why Computer Science Needs Philosophy
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| Today's information-driven science faces a vast new problem of data unification
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| In medicine, this problem can be of life-and-death significance
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| The organization that is HL7 | |
| Ontology 101: Why computer-science ontology needs common sense
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| Does France exist?
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| Why computer scientists prefer a view of ontology as conceptual modeling
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| The alternative: scientific ontologies
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| Towards ontology (science)
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| 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: |
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| Examples of Semantic Web ontologies
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| Simple syllogisms and beyond
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| Problems with XML
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| Clay Shirky: Why the Semantic Web would be a utopia
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| Blooming 'lite' ontologies
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| Why ontology requires thinking
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| To move in the right direction, the Semantic Web needs (inter alia) a guiding upper level ontology
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| CYC, SUMO, DOLCE, BFO
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| 7. Towards a Standard Upper Level Ontology
| | 1. a brief history of ontology from Aristotle to the Human Genome Project. |
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| | 2. the ontology of social reality |
| Scientific ontologies have special features
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| Building scientific ontologies which work together demands a common set of ontological relations
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| Basic Formal Ontology: benefits of coordination
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| Users of BFO
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| Continuants, occurrents, realizables
| | 7. ontology and the Federal Government Data Integration Initiative (anno 2009) |
| Specific dependence, generic dependence, information artifacts
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| Dispositions, roles, functions
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| Diseases and disorders: the Ontology of General Medical Science
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| 8. The Universal Core: Ontology and the US Federal Government Data Integration Initiative
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| The DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy
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| The Universal Core (UCore) Taxonomy and Semantic Layer
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| Reasoning with OWL DL
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| Manging extension ontologies
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| Example: Command and Control
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| Information entities
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| The UCore change management process
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| How UCore SL helps
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| Full deck of slides in handout form
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| Background reading
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| Course details
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| '''Time''': Asynchronous on-line, Fall 2024 | | '''Time''': Asynchronous on-line, Fall 2024 |
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| '''Room''': N/A | | '''Room''': N/A |
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| '''Instructor''': [http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith Barry Smith]
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| == '''Recommended background reading''' == | | == '''Recommended background reading''' == |
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
