College of arts and sciences

Department of Philosophy

Barry Smith

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and
Julian Park Chair

Ph.D., Manchester

Director, National Center for Ontological Research

Affiliate Professor of Biomedical Informatics,
Computer Science, and Neurology

Editor, The Monist

Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI)

Contact Information:

126 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4150

Phone: (716) 650-0075
Email: phismith@buffalo.edu

Personal Website: Barry Smith
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Area of Specialization and Current Research

Ontology

Courses

Ontological Engineering
Problems in Ontology
Analytic Metaphysics (2016)
Biomedical Ontology (2016)

Selected Publications

Andrew Spear, Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, "Functions in Basic Formal Ontology", Applied Ontology, 11, 2016.
Barry Smith, “Towards a Science of Emerging Media”, Philosophy of Emerging Media: Understanding, Appreciation and Application, edited by J. E. Katz and J. Floyd, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 29-48.
Robert Arp, Barry Smith, Andrew Spear, Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015.
Barry Smith, "Document Acts", in A. Konzelmann-Ziv, H. B. Schmid (eds.), Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents. Contributions to Social Ontology (Philosophical Studies Series) Dordrecht: Springer, 2014, 19-31.