Analytic Metaphysics (2024)
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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
- What's Wrong with Contemporary Philosophy?
- Austrian Philosophy
- Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology
- Pieces of a Theory
- Slides
- Video
Ontology of Deontic Entities
- 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
Ontology of Deontic Entities (continued)
- Massively Planned Social Agency
- Slides
- Video
- See also materials here
Ontological Realism
- Individuals, Universals and Collections
- Fiat Objects
- Endurantist and Perdurantist Accounts of Persistence
- 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
Document Acts
Money
- The Construction of Social Reality
- Money and Fictions
- Toward a Science of Emerging Media
- Slides
- Video
The Ontology of Classification
Organisms and Environments
- How to do biology across the Genome
- The central role of the Gene Ontology (GO) and Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO)
- The ontology of relations
- How to understand biological universals
- Aristotle's Theory of Definition
- The Logic of Biological Classification and the Foundations of Biomedical Ontology
- The ontology of biological taxa
- The niche
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