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InterOntology. Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 26-27 February 2008Keio University Press. 2008.
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M. A. Notturno, Perspectives on Psychologism (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 12 (2): 249. 1991.
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J. MacNamara: A Border Dispute. The Place of Logic in Psychology (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 9 (1): 126. 1988.
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Ontology of finance (edited book)Rosenberg & Sellier. forthcoming.One famous scene in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) is the dialogue between the young Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and the expert trader Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey). Hanna is complaining that the stock market is unpredictable; it’s “fugazi … it’s fairy dust. It doesn’t exist. It’s never landed. It is not matter. It’s not on the element chart. It’s not real”. But the fact that something is unpredictable and non-physical does not imply that it does not exist. On the other hand, its unpre…Read more
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Meinong, by Rheinhardt Grossmann (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 7 (2): 147-148. 1976.
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Mach şi Ehrenfels. Fundamentele teoriei gestaltisteIn C. Stoenescu & I. Tanasescu (eds.), Filosofia Austriacă, Pelican. 2005.Ernst Mach's atomistic theory of sensation faces problems in doing justice to our ability to perceive and remember complex phenomena such as melodies and shapes. Christian von Ehrenfels attempted to solve these problems with his theory of "Gestalt qualities", which he sees as entities depending one-sidedly on the corresponding simple objects of sensation. We explore the theory of dependence relations advanced by Ehrenfels and show how it relates to the views on the objects of perception advanced…Read more
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Introduction: A New Definition of Liberal EducationIn Barry Smith (ed.), Liberal Education in a Knowledge Society, Open Court. pp. 1-9. 2002.
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Introduction: International Medical Informatics Association Working Group 6 and the 2005 Rome ConferenceJournal of Biomedical Informatics 39 (3): 249-251. 2006.
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Applied Ontology: A Marvin Farber Conference on Law and Institutions in Society (edited book)University at Buffalo. 1998.The application of ontology has thus far [in 1998] been confined almost exclusively to the field of knowledge representation. Ontology has been applied, for example, in the design of medical databases and in the construction of geographical information systems. One area which is naturally suited to ontological analysis is that of the law and of social institutions in general. Legal systems are composed of legal entities, such as laws, contracts, obligations, and rights. Their application yields …Read more
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Proceedings of InterOntology (Tokyo, Japan, 26-27 February 2008), (edited book)Keio University Press. 2008.
Barry Smith
University at Buffalo
National Center for Ontological Research
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University at BuffaloDepartment of Philosophy
Biomedical Informatics
Neurology
Computer Science and EngineeringDistinguished Professor, Julian Park Chair -
National Center for Ontological ResearchAdministrator
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APA Eastern Division
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Ontology |
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence |
Philosophy of Biology |