Barry Smith
PhD, FACMI
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Julian Park Chair
Affiliate Professorships
UB Biomedical Informatics and UB Computer Science & Engineering
Areas of Specialization
Applied Ontology; Artificial Intelligence
Education
PhD, Philosophy, University of Manchester (1976)
MA, Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University (1975)
BA, Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University, 1st Class Joint Honors (1973)
Courses
- Philosophy of Science 2022
- American Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance 2021
- Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (Crash Course) October 2 - 3, 2021
- Intelligence Analysis: A Crash Course 2019
- Applied Ontology Fall 2018
- Ontological Engineering online course, Spring 2018
- Advanced Biomedical Ontology Fall 2017
- Applied Ontology 2017 online course, Spring 2017
- Biomedical Ontology Fall 2016
- Analytic Metaphysics Spring 2016
Selected Publications
- Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, Why Machines Will Never Rule The World — Artificial Intelligence Without Fear (Routledge 2022)
- William Mandrick and Barry Smith, “Philosophical foundations of intelligence collection and analysis: a defense of ontological realism”, Intelligence and National Security, vol. 38, June 2022
- S Babcock, J Beverley, LG Cowell, B Smith, The Infectious Disease Ontology in the age of COVID-19, Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2021, 13 (12)
- B Smith, OG Loddo, G Lorini, On credentials, Journal of Social Ontology 6 (1), 47-67 (2020).
- Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, Making AI Meaningful Again, Synthese 2021, 198 (3), 2061-2081