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Smith authored a [http://www.derrida.com/differance.html letter] to [[The Times]] concerning [[Jacques Derrida]] receiving an [[honorary degree]] from [[Cambridge University]], in which he set out numerous reasons why he did not support this prospect.
Smith authored a [http://www.derrida.com/differance.html letter] to [[The Times]] concerning [[Jacques Derrida]] receiving an [[honorary degree]] from [[Cambridge University]], in which he set out numerous reasons why he did not support this prospect.


He is leader of the [[Upper ontology (information science)#Basic_Formal_Ontology_.28BFO.29|Basic Formal Ontology]] (BFO) project, a Coordinating Editor of the [[Open Biomedical Ontologies|OBO Foundry]]<ref>{{cite pmid|17989687}}</ref> and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the [[Gene Ontology]] Consortium, the [http://obi.sourceforge.net/ OBI] (Ontology for Biomedical Investigations) Working Group, and of the Cleveland Clinic Semantic Database.
He is leader of the [[Upper ontology (information science)#Basic_Formal_Ontology_.28BFO.29|Basic Formal Ontology]] (BFO) project, a Coordinating Editor of the [[Open Biomedical Ontologies|OBO Foundry]]<ref>{{cite pmid|17989687}}</ref> and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the [[Gene Ontology]] Consortium, the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI)<ref>{{cite pmid| 20626927}}</ref> Working Group, and of the Cleveland Clinic Semantic Database.


Smith's research focus is [[ontology]] and its applications, especially in [[biomedical informatics]]<ref>{{cite pmid|14728245}}</ref><ref>{{cite pmid| 15892874}}</ref>, where he is working on a variety of projects relating to biomedical terminologies and electronic health records. He is also collaborating with [[Hernando de Soto (economist)|Hernando de Soto]], Director of the [[Institute for Liberty and Democracy]] in [[Lima]], [[Peru]], on the ontology of property rights and social development.
Smith's research focus is [[ontology]] and its applications, especially in [[biomedical informatics]]<ref>{{cite pmid|15360852}}</ref><ref>{{cite pmid|14728245}}</ref><ref>{{cite pmid| 15892874}}</ref>, where he is working on a variety of projects relating to biomedical terminologies and electronic health records. He is also collaborating with [[Hernando de Soto (economist)|Hernando de Soto]], Director of the [[Institute for Liberty and Democracy]] in [[Lima]], [[Peru]], on the ontology of property rights and social development.

==See also==
* [[American philosophy]]
* [[List of American philosophers]]


==References==
==References==
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'''Articles'''
'''Articles'''
*{{cite doi|10.1007/s11229-009-9658-x}}
*Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “[http://www.springerlink.com/content/k414rg8158585g37/ Foundations of an Ontology of Philosophy]”, ''Synthese'' (2011), DOI 10.1007/s11229-009-9658-x
*{{cite doi| 10.3233/AO-2010-007}}
*{{cite doi|10.3233/AO-2010-007}}
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/AEAP.pdf] Austrian Economics and Austrian Philosophy”, in W. Grassl and B. Smith (eds.), ''Austrian Economics: Historical and Philosophical Background'', London: Routledge, 2010, 1–36.
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/AEAP.pdf] Austrian Economics and Austrian Philosophy”, in W. Grassl and B. Smith (eds.), ''Austrian Economics: Historical and Philosophical Background'', London: Routledge, 2010, 1–36.
*Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology”, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4 (1), 2004, 69–103.
*Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology”, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4 (1), 2004, 69–103.
*Barry Smith and Cornelius Rosse, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/medo/isa.pdf The Role of Foundational Relations in the Alignment of Biomedical Ontologies]”, in M. Fieschi, et al. (eds.), ''Medinfo 2004'', Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 444–448.
*Barry Smith, "[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/Beyond_Concepts.pdf Beyond Concepts, or: Ontology as Reality Representation]”, Achille Varzi and Laure Vieu (eds.), ''Formal Ontology and Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference'' (FOIS 2004), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 73–84.
*Barry Smith, "[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/bfo/Beyond_Concepts.pdf Beyond Concepts, or: Ontology as Reality Representation]”, Achille Varzi and Laure Vieu (eds.), ''Formal Ontology and Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference'' (FOIS 2004), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 73–84.
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/ontology_pic.pdf Ontology]”, in Luciano Floridi (ed.), ''Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information'', Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 155–166.
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/ontology_pic.pdf Ontology]”, in Luciano Floridi (ed.), ''Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information'', Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 155–166.
*Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Mountains.htm Do Mountains Exist? Towards an Ontology of Landforms]”, ''Environment and Planning B (Planning and Design)'', 30 (3), 2003 , 411–427.
*Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Mountains.htm Do Mountains Exist? Towards an Ontology of Landforms]”, ''Environment and Planning B (Planning and Design)'', 30 (3), 2003 , 411–427.
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]”, ''Topoi'', 20: 2 (September 2001), 131–148.
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiat.htm Fiat Objects]”, ''Topoi'', 20: 2 (September 2001), 131–148.
*{{cite doi|10.1080/13658810110061199}}
*Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “[http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/ncgia/ontology/SmithMarkIJGIS2001p591_s.pdf Geographical Categories: An Ontological Investigation]”, ''International Journal of Geographical Information Science'', 15 (7), 2001, 591–612.
*Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiatvs.html Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries]”, ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'', 60 (2), 2000, 401–420.
*Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiatvs.html Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries]”, ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'', 60 (2), 2000, 401–420.
*Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The Niche]”, Nous, 33 (2), 1999, 198–222.
*Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The Niche]”, Nous, 33 (2), 1999, 198–222.
*{{cite doi|10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00015-8}}
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/mereotopology.htm Mereotopology: A Theory of Parts and Boundaries]”, ''Data and Knowledge Engineering'', 20, 1996, 287–303.
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/drawing.html On Drawing Lines on a Map]”, in Andrew U. Frank and Werner Kuhn (eds.), ''Spatial Information Theory. A Theoretical Basis for GIS'' (LNCS 988), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, etc.: Springer, 1995, 475–484.
*Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/drawing.html On Drawing Lines on a Map]”, in Andrew U. Frank and Werner Kuhn (eds.), ''Spatial Information Theory. A Theoretical Basis for GIS'' (LNCS 988), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, etc.: Springer, 1995, 475–484.
*Kevin Mulligan, Peter M. Simons and Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/truthmakers/tm.html Truth-Makers]”, ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'', 44 (1984), 287–321.
*Kevin Mulligan, Peter M. Simons and Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/truthmakers/tm.html Truth-Makers]”, ''Philosophy and Phenomenological Research'', 44 (1984), 287–321.

Revision as of 21:46, 5 March 2012

Barry Smith (born 4 June 1952) is a Julian Park Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the University at Buffalo (New York, USA) and Research Scientist in the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences. From 2002 to 2006 he was Director of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS) in Leipzig and Saarbrücken, Germany. Since 2007 he acts as Research Director of IFOMIS.

He is the author of some 450 scientific publications, including 15 authored or edited books, and editor of The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US, Swiss and Austrian National Science Foundations, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the European Union. In 2002 he received in recognition of his scientific achievements the Wolfgang Paul Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 2005 he founded the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR). In 2006 NCOR initiated the Ontology for the Intelligence Community, now STIDS series of meetings. Smith was responsible also for initiating the International Conference on Biomedical Ontology [1].

In 2010 he received the first Paolo Bozzi Prize for Ontology from the University of Turin.

Smith authored a letter to The Times concerning Jacques Derrida receiving an honorary degree from Cambridge University, in which he set out numerous reasons why he did not support this prospect.

He is leader of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) project, a Coordinating Editor of the OBO Foundry[1] and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Gene Ontology Consortium, the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI)[2] Working Group, and of the Cleveland Clinic Semantic Database.

Smith's research focus is ontology and its applications, especially in biomedical informatics[3][4][5], where he is working on a variety of projects relating to biomedical terminologies and electronic health records. He is also collaborating with Hernando de Soto, Director of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru, on the ontology of property rights and social development.

References

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Bibliography

Books

  • Structure and Gestalt: Philosophy and Literature in Austria-Hungary and Her Successor States (ed.), 1981.
  • Parts and Moments. Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology (ed.), Munich/Vienna: Philosophia, 1982.
  • Foundations of Gestalt Theory (ed.), Munich/Vienna: Philosophia, 1988.
  • Adolf Reinach, Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar, Band I: Die Werke, Teil I: Kritische Neuausgabe (1905–1914), Teil II: Nachgelassene Texte (1906–1917); Band II: Kommentar und Textkritik (ed. with Karl Schuhmann), Munich/Vienna: Philosophia 1989.
  • Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, 2 vols. (ed. with Hans Burkhardt), Munich/Vienna: Philosophia, 1991.
  • Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano, Chicago-LaSalle, Open Court, 1994.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Husserl (ed., with David W. Smith), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Rationality and Irrationality (ed., with Berit Brogaard), Vienna: öbv&hpt, 2001.
  • Formal Ontology in Information Systems (ed. with Christopher Welty and Barry Smith (eds.), New York: ACM Press, 2001.
  • John Searle (ed.), Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Applied Ontology: An Introduction (ed. with K. Munn), 2008.
  • The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality (ed. with David Mark and Isaac Ehrlich), Chicago: Open Court, 2008.
  • Biomedizinische Ontologie. Philosophie – Lebenswissenschaften - Informationstechnik, (ed., with Ludger Jansen), Zurich: vdf, 2008.

Articles

  • Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1007/s11229-009-9658-x, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.1007/s11229-009-9658-x instead.
  • Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.3233/AO-2010-007, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.3233/AO-2010-007 instead.
  • Barry Smith, “[2] Austrian Economics and Austrian Philosophy”, in W. Grassl and B. Smith (eds.), Austrian Economics: Historical and Philosophical Background, London: Routledge, 2010, 1–36.
  • Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology”, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4 (1), 2004, 69–103.
  • Barry Smith, "Beyond Concepts, or: Ontology as Reality Representation”, Achille Varzi and Laure Vieu (eds.), Formal Ontology and Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS 2004), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 73–84.
  • Barry Smith, “Ontology”, in Luciano Floridi (ed.), Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 155–166.
  • Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “Do Mountains Exist? Towards an Ontology of Landforms”, Environment and Planning B (Planning and Design), 30 (3), 2003 , 411–427.
  • Barry Smith, “Fiat Objects”, Topoi, 20: 2 (September 2001), 131–148.
  • Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1080/13658810110061199, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.1080/13658810110061199 instead.
  • Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60 (2), 2000, 401–420.
  • Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The Niche]”, Nous, 33 (2), 1999, 198–222.
  • Attention: This template ({{cite doi}}) is deprecated. To cite the publication identified by doi:10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00015-8, please use {{cite journal}} (if it was published in a bona fide academic journal, otherwise {{cite report}} with |doi=10.1016/S0169-023X(96)00015-8 instead.
  • Barry Smith, “On Drawing Lines on a Map”, in Andrew U. Frank and Werner Kuhn (eds.), Spatial Information Theory. A Theoretical Basis for GIS (LNCS 988), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, etc.: Springer, 1995, 475–484.
  • Kevin Mulligan, Peter M. Simons and Barry Smith, “Truth-Makers”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 44 (1984), 287–321.

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