Forms part of a training course in ontology given in Buffalo in 2009. For details and accompanying video see http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/IntroOntology_Course.html

1. Lecture 4 Why I am Not a Philosopher, or Ontologists Leaving the Philosophical Mother Ship

3. “ Why I am not a philosopher” October 11, 2006

4. HMS Ontology

29. national center for ontological research founded October 2005

35. RELATION TO TIME GRANULARITY CONTINUANT OCCURRENT INDEPENDENT DEPENDENT ORGAN AND ORGANISM Organism (NCBI Taxonomy?) Anatomical Entity (FMA, CARO) Organ Function (FMP, CPRO) Phenotypic Quality (PaTO) Organism-Level Process (GO) CELL AND CELLULAR COMPONENT Cell (CL) Cellular Component (FMA, GO) Cellular Function (GO) Cellular Process (GO) MOLECULE Molecule (ChEBI, SO, RnaO, PrO) Molecular Function (GO) Molecular Process (GO)

37. What is a hole (conduit, cavity)?

38. what is a system? respiratory digestive skeletal circulatory musculatory immune

39. A hydraulic system

40. Systems interconnect with other systems

41. plus NERVOUS SYSTEM (Regulatory Links) what is regulation?

43. Aristotle 2010 an ontology of substances, + qualities + processes + holes (conduits, cavities) + systems, networks + functions, malfunctions

44. what is a molecular pathway?

46. Ontology ( tech. ) often marked by intellectual confusions – above all by the confusion of use and mention Gruber: ‘For AI systems what “exists” is what can be represented’ Microsoft Healthvault: ‘An allergy episode is … a single unit of data that is recorded in Microsoft Healthvault’

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55. Journals

56. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological Analysis and Conceptual Modeling

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58. textbooks

59. textbooks

60. Conferences

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67. Organized by LADSEB (Institute for Systems Science and Biomedical Engineering), where a research group on "Conceptual Modeling and Knowledge Engineering" has been active since 1991. Under the leadership of Nicola Guarino this group gained an international reputation for its interdisciplinary approach focused on the role of philosophical ontology in the foundations of knowledge representation, … In 2003 Guarino’s group moved to Trento to form the Laboratory for Applied Ontology. http://www.istc.cnr.it/about/history.shtml

70. http://www.loa-cnr.it/

71. http://mally.stanford.edu/ founded 1994

73. founded 1999 http://www.labont.it/

74. Founded 2002

75. Industrial applications

76. industrial applications

77. http://ontology.com

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