Barry Smith

 Invited Lectures (Departmental Seminars)

Jun. 1975
Jagiellonian University, Cracow ("Roman Ingarden and the Aesthetics of Mathematical Objects")

Apr. 1977
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Aachen ("Versuch einer Schichtenontologie")

Jun. 1981
Universität Innsbruck ("Weininger und Wittgenstein")
Universität Salzburg ("über die Kategorienlehre des Aristoteles")
University of Edinburgh ("Husserl's Monadology")

Dec. 1982
University of Edinburgh ("Husserl, Frege and the Theory of Meaning")

Jan. 1983
City University, London ("Mental Acts")
University of Sheffield ("Is Intentionality a Relation?")

May 1983
Cambridge University ("The Frege-Husserl Question")

Dec. 1983
Institute of Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest ("On the Foundations of Dependence Grammar")

Jan. 1984
Université de Liège ("The Logic of Wholes and Parts" and "On the History of the Theory of Speech Acts")

May 1984
Universität Hamburg ("Formalontologische Grundlagen der Phänomenologie Edmund Husserls")
University of Oslo ("Parts, Wholes and Structures, with special reference to the Foundations of Psychology")

Nov. 1984
University of Texas at Austin ("On a Theory of the A Priori")
University of Dallas ("The Metaphysics of the Self")
Stanford University ("A Theory of Indexicality")

Dec. 1984
Università di Bologna ("Husserl and the Ontology of Language")

May 1985
Académie de Paris ("Topology, Closure Algebras and Metaphysics") .

Jan. 1986
Durham University ("Austrian Origins of Logical Positivism")

Mar. 1986
George Mason University, Virginia ("Hermeneutics and Economics")

Apr. 1986
Temple University, Philadelphia ("Indexicality and Perception")
Catholic University, Washington ("A Substitution Theory of Art")
New York University ("Austrian Economics and Austrian Philosophy")
SUNY at Buffalo, New York ("Brentano and Phenomenology")
Brown University, Providence ("Indexicality and Things")

Jun. 1986
Friedrich Naumann-Stiftung, Königswinter ("Österreichische Ökonomie und österreichische Philosophie")
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Mannheim ("Das Ich als Zeichen")
Institut für Soziologie und Wissenschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim ("Zur Grundlegung der Sozialwissenschaften")

May 1987
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Freiburg, Switzerland ("Die qualitative Physik: Ein philosophischer Beitrag zur Artificial-Intelligence-Debatte")
Philosophische Gesellschaft, Fribourg, Switzerland ("Die Aufgaben der Ontologie")

Jun. 1987
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bochum, German ("Kulturtheorie und Nationalökonomie") .

Sep. 1987
Department of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington ("On the Peculiar Parts of Reality to which our Sentences Correspond")

Dec. 1987
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Salzburg ("Sechs falsche Wahrheitstheorien")
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Freiburg I. Br. ("Varianten des Idealismus")

Feb. 1988
Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama ("The Austrianness of Austrian Economics")
Department of Economics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama ("Philosophical Foundations of Austrian Economics")
Graduate Seminar, Dept. of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington ("Varieties of Atomism")
Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa, Iowa City ("Notes on Ontology")
Department of History, University of Iowa, Iowa City ("Metahistorical Reflections on Austria-Hungary")
Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University ("Phenomenology and the A Priori")
Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh ("New Foundations for Metametaphysics")
Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia ("Subjectivism and Objectivism in Economics")
Center for Study of Market Process, Dept. of Economics, George Mason University ("Austrian Economics: Principles and Provocations")

Mar. 1988
Vereinigung für wissenschaftliche Grundlagenforschung, Graz ("Eine Einführung in die Metametaphysik")

May 1988
Department of Mathematics, University of Wroclaw, Poland ("Two Concepts of the Continuum, with remarks on the Topology of Objects")
Polish Philosophical Society, Cracow Division ("The Correspondence Theory of Truth: Aristotelian and Ingardenian Reflections")
Department of Philosophy, University of Wroclaw, Poland ("Constraints on Correspondence")
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Innsbruck ("Wie vergleicht man metaphysische Systeme miteinander?")
Faculty of History and Social Sciences, Università di Trento, Italy ("What is Truth?")

Oct. 1988
Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick ("What are works of art built for?")
Internationale Akademie für Philosophie and Infor-Tele-Matik AG, Liechtenstein ("Die Computer-Welt Beziehung. Bemerkungen über die Anwendung des Computers in der Technik")

Nov. 1988
Centre de Recherche en Epistémologie Appliquée, Paris ("La sémantique formelle et les limites de la philosophie analytique" and "Deux perspectives sur les sciences cognitives: la physique phénoménologique et le solipsisme méthodologique")
Centre d'Analyse et de Mathematiques sociales, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris ("Les structures aristotéliciennes-brentaniennes contre les constructions ensemblistes")

Feb. 1989
Faculty of Music, University of Manchester ("Schopenhauer, Music and the Will")
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, King's College, London ("Naive Physics and Phenomenology. A Guide for Robots")

Apr. 1989
Institut für Nationalökonomie, Universität Wien ("Die Österreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie: Philosophische und ökonomische Aspekte")
Department of Philosophy, Rhode Island University ("A Correspondence Theory of Intentionality")
Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University ("A Picture Theory of Universals")

May 1989
Department of the Philosophy of Science, University of Umeå ("The Languages of Philosophy" and "An Introduction to Metametaphysics")

Oct. 1989
Department of Philosophy, åbo Akademie, åbo/Turku, Finland ("Contiguous Cultures: A Theory of Artistic Creativity")

Dec. 1989
Seminar für Philosophie, Universität Braunschweig ("Die Telefaxmaschine des Aristoteles: Zur Wesensanalyse des philosophischen Kommentierens")
Institut für Philosophie, Universität München ("Die Gattung Kommentar")

Jan. 1990
Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool ("Aristotle's Fax Machine")
Department of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo ("The Culture of the Philosophical Commentary")

Feb. 1990
Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver ("An Ontological Theory of the A Priori")

Apr. 1990
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Firenze ("Judgment and Truth in Husserl's Logical Investigations")

Jun. 1990
Institut de Philosophie, Université de Genève ("Structures of the Commonsense World")

Sep. 1990
Institut für Philosophie, åbo Akademi, åbo/Turku, Finland ("The Is/Ought Distinction")
Department of Philosophy, Turku University, Finland ("On the Obscure Origins of Speech Act Theory")

Oct. 1990
Department of Philosophy, Joensuu University, Finland ("On Being a Work of Art" and "The Literary Forms of Philosophy")

Nov. 1990
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Kiel ("Aristoteles und die Roboter")
Institut für Nationalökonomie, Universität Innsbruck ("Apriorische Grundlagen der Sozialwissenschaften")

Dec. 1990
Centro Studi per la Filosofia Mitteleuropea, Università di Trento ("The Theory of Austria")

Feb. 1991
Cognitive Science Seminar, State University of New York at Buffalo ("Naive Physics")

May 1991
Institute of Philosophy of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences ("Jacques Derrida: Writing to Death")
Department of Philosophy, Prague School of Economics ("Philosophical Foundations of Austrian Economics: From Franz Brentano to Friedrich Hayek")

Sep. 1991
Buffalo Logic Colloquium, University at Buffalo ("What is Formal about Formal Logic?")

Oct. 1991
Department of Philosophy, Charles University, Prague ("Kafka and the Philosophers")

Nov. 1991
Department of Philosophy, University of Leiden ("The Truth Shall Prevail: Philosophy and Political Change in Eastern Europe")

Jan. 1992
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Innsbruck ("Jacques Derrida: Zum Tode schreiben")

Feb. 1992
Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada ("Jacques Derrida: Writing to Death")
Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale ("What is Wrong with Contemporary French Philosophy?")

May 1992
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Graz ("Common Sense schlägt zurück")

Jul. 1992
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Konstanz ("Ontologische Spaziergänge")

Sep. 1992
Cognitive Science Seminar, University at Buffalo ("Nativism", as Panel Member)

Oct. 1992
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Innsbruck ("Apriorisches Wissen und künstliche Intelligenz")

Jan. 1993
Buffalo Logic Colloquium, University at Buffalo ("Commentary on Corcoran")

Feb. 1993
Buffalo Logic Colloquium, University at Buffalo ("States of Affairs")
Cognitive Science Seminar, University at Buffalo ("Feminist Epistemology", as Panel Member)
The German Language Society, German Embassy, Washington D.C. ("Philosophie, Politik und Revolution in Osteuropa")
Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro ("Facts")
Department of Economics, New York University ("Carl Menger: On Apriorism in Austrian Economics")

May 1993
Department of Philosophy, Turku University ("Formal Ontology and Knowledge Representation")
Vereinigung Vorarlberger Akademie, Bregenz ("Vernunft und Unvernunft im heutigen Denken" and "Das Denken im Zeitalter des Computers")

Oct. 1993
Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg ("Formale Strukturen der Common-Sense Welt")
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Hamburg ("Sachverhalte als Wahrmacher")

Dec. 1993
Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia, Trento ("Formal Ontology and the Common-Sense World")
Department of Philosophy, University of Padua ("Truth: Part I" and "Truth: Part II")
Centro Interdepartimente di Scienze Cognitive and Department of Psychology, University of Padua ("Gestalt Theory, Topology and Common Sense: Alternative Foundations for Cognitive Science")

Feb. 1994
Department of Philosophy, University of Tampere, Finland ("Husserl as Ontologist"),
Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland ("Boundaries")

Mar. 1994
The Creighton Club. New York State Philosophical Association, 139th Meeting, Skaneateles, NY ("Zeno's Paradox for Colors")

Oct. 1994
Buffalo Logic Colloquium, University at Buffalo ("Theories of the Continuum")

Nov. 1994
University of Iowa, Gustav Bergman Lecture ("The Glory and Misery of Twentieth-Century Philosophy: From Husserl to Derrida")
Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa ("Ontological Form")
Centre for Semiotic Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark ("The Joints of Reality")
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ("On Philosophical Styles")

Dec. 1994
Department of History, Canisius College, Buffalo ("Culture and Capitalism")

Feb. 1995
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario ("Brentano's Theory of the Continuum")
Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario ("Continental Philosophy: For and Against")

Mar. 1995
Institut für Ingenieurgeodäsie und Landesvermessung, Technische Universität, Wien ("Zur Kognition räumlicher Grenzen")
Department of History, University of Malta ("Philosophy and Political Change in Eastern Europe")

Apr. 1995
The Creighton Club. New York State Philosophical Association, 140th Meeting, Skaneateles, NY ("Rejoinder to Hardin on Spectrum Inversion")
State University College at Geneseo, NY ("The Identity Theory of Truth")
Institute of Psychology, University of Amsterdam ("Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science")

May 1995
Department of Philosophy, Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej Universita, Lublin ("What is the Visual Field?")
Department of Philosophy, Catholic University of Lublin ("The Identity Theory of Truth")
Department of Philosophy, Catholic University of Lublin ("Foundations of Cognitive Science: From Connectionism to Ontological Engineering")
Conversatorium in Cognition Science, Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun ("What is the Visible Field?")
Department of Logic, Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun ("Non-Standard Theories of the Continuum")
Department of Philosophy, University of Torun ("The End of Postmodernism")
Polish Philosophical Society, Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University ("Why Polish Philosophy Does Not Exist")
Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University ("What is the Visual Field?", "The Identity Theory of Truth", "The Scandal of 'Continental Philosophy'" and "How to Refute Idealism")

Jun. 1995
Ludwig von Mises University, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama ("Mises and Austrian Philosophy" and "Theory and History")

Sep. 1995
Hungarian Philosophical Association, Budapest ("What is Post-modernism?")

Nov. 1995
Symposium on Michael Tye, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo ("Ten Problems of Consciousness")
Public Lecture, Technical University, Vienna ("Philosophie für Ingenieure")

Feb. 1996
Honors Seminar, Canisius High School, Buffalo ("On the Causes of War")
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo ("Bosnia: The Cognitive Geometry of War")
Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama ("Bosnia: The Cognitive Geometry of War")
Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama ("Boundaries: A Hitherto Neglected Metaphysical Category")
Department of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta ("Husserlian Foundations of Social Ontology")
Buffalo Dictionary Project, Logic Colloquium, University at Buffalo ("Propositions and States of Affairs")
Cognitive Science Colloquium, University at Buffalo ("Ontological Foundations of Geographic Information Systems", with David Mark)

Mar. 1996
Department of Computer Science, University of Leeds ("Types of Boundary in Geographic Space")
Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds ("On War, Social Ontology and Organic Unity")
Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool ("On Mental Maps and the Evolution of Human Territoriality")

Apr. 1996
Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin ("Feminist Philosophy, Post-Modernism and the Deconstruction of the University")
Political Science Honor Society, Canisius College, Buffalo ("Political Correctness in Perspective")

Jul. 1996
Department of Geography and National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California at Santa Barbara ("The Metaphysics of Real Estate")
Spatial Cognition Research Group, University of California at Santa Barbara ("Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics")
Center for Economic Personalism, Acton Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan ("Austrian Philosophy")

Aug. 1996
Ludwig von Mises University, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama (Four plenary lectures under the title: "Philosophy for Austrian Economists")

Sep. 1996
New York Association of Scholars,
New York ("What is Postmodernism?")

Oct. 1996
Department of Philosophy, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas ("The Metaphysics of Real Estate")
Philosophy Club, Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas ("On the Origins of War")
Department of Philosophy, York University, Toronto ("Categories Deep and Superficial")
Departments of Philosophy and Sociology, SUNY Potsdam ("What is Postmodernism?")
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo ("Die erkenntnistheoretische Aufspaltung der Welt (mit Bemerkungen zur kognitiven Linguistik)")

Nov. 1996
Seminar für Philosophie, Universität Basel ("Die erkenntnistheoretische Aufspaltung der Welt")
Department of Political Science, University of Olomouc, Czech Republic ("Sovereignty and Property Rights")
Public Lecture Sponsored by the Sonderforschungsbereich Moderne of the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung and the University of Graz, Austria ("Moderne vs. Post-Moderne")

Jan. 1997
Department of Geography, SUNY Buffalo ("On the Varieties of Boundaries")

Feb. 1997
Honors Seminar, Canisius High School, Buffalo ("Paradoxes")
Department of Economics, New York University, New York ("The Metaphysics of Real Estate")
Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY ("Libertarianism, Monarchy, and Property Rights")
University of Malta Foundation for International Studies, Valletta, Malta ("The Geometry of War")
Philosophy Club, University of Malta ("Common Sense: A Guide for Robots")

Mar. 1997
Department of Philosophy, Abo Academy, Abo/Turku, Finland ("The Adaptation Theory of Truth")
Department of Philosophy, Turku University, Turku, Finland ("New Directions in Applied Metaphysics")

May 1997
Department of Philosophy, SUNY Binghamton ("What is Postmodern Philosophy?")

Centre pour la Récherche en Epistemologie Appliquée (CREA), Ecole Polytechnique, Paris ("J. J. Gibson: The Adaptation Theory of Truth")

Jul. 1997
The Sullivan Policy Institute, Rochester, New York ("Higher Education and Its Problems")

Sep. 1997
Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki ("Paradoxes of Contact and Separation")

Oct. 1997
Public Lecture, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia (as Distinguished Visiting Scholar) ("The State as Work of Art")

Nov. 1997
Philosophisches Institut, Universität Düsseldorf ("Ontologie des Mesokosmos: Soziale Objekte und Umwelten")
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Würzburg ("Ontologie des Mesokosmos: Soziale Objekte und Umwelten")
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bamberg ("Ontologie des Mesokosmos: Soziale Objekte und Umwelten")

Feb. 1998
Institut für Geoinformatik, Universität Münster ("Versuch einer vollständigen Ontologie geographischer Gegenstände")

Mar. 1998
UNIWorld/Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, March 1998 ("Teaching Philosophy on the Internet")

Apr. 1998
University of Albany, Public Lecture ("What is Postmodernism?")
Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo (Tutorial on John Searle, The Construction of Social Reality)
Presentation to the Academic Standards Committee of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York ("SUNY's Core Curriculum")
Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay ("Ecological Foundations of Cognitive Science)
Philosophy House, University of Wisconsin at Green Bay ("In Defense of Applied Philosophy"), April 1998

May 1998
Alfred State University, Honors Convocation, Keynote Lecture ("Common Sense: A Guide for Robots")

Jul. 1998
Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario ("Metaphysical Foundations of Biology" and "Husserl and the Theory of Part and Whole")
Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney ("The Niche")
Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland, Brisbane ("The Niche")
Department of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ("The Niche")
Center for Mathematical and Information Sciences, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia ("New Directions in Ontological Engineering")
Australian Defence Forces Academy, Canberra, Australia ("The Geometry of War")
Department of Philosophy, University of New England, Armidale, Australia ("The Niche")

Aug. 1998
Buffalo Socratic Society, Buffalo, NY ("Truthmaker Realism")

Sep. 1998
Cognitive Science Center, University at Buffalo ("Cognition, Ontology and Geographic Information Science", with David Mark)

Oct. 1998
The Greats Speaker Series, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Buffalo State College ("Ethnic Cleansing")
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, University of Rotterdam, Netherlands ("Social Ontology")

Nov. 1998
Department of Comparative Literature, University of Copenhagen ("Kafka and the Philosophers")
Center for Semiotic Studies, University of Aarhus ("An Ecological Theory of Social Objects")
Department of Philosophy, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada ("Truthmaker Realism")
Department of Geography, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA ("Buffalo's IGERT Program in Geographic Information Science")
Department of Philosophy, Emory and Henry College, Emory, VA ("Why Go to Graduate School?")
Department of Philosophy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN ("Why Go to Graduate School?")

Jan. 1999
Department of Philosophy, Hebrew University, Jerusalem ("The Niche")
Center for Cognitive Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel ("On the Cognition of Geographic Kinds")
Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel ("Truthmaker Realism")

Mar. 1999
Philosophy Club, University of Malta ("What is Postmodernism")
Department of Philosophy, University of Malta ("Physics, Mereology and Vagueness")

Jun. 1999
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Mainz, Germany ("Die ganze Welt ist eine Bühne: Zur Ökologie und Ontologie menschlicher und tierischer Lebenswelt")
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Koblenz, Germany ("Die ganze Welt ist eine Bühne: Zur Ökologie und Ontologie menschlicher und tierischer Lebenswelt")
Department of Philosophy, University of Padua, "Truth as an Internal Relation"
"Hills, Bays and Body PartsRecent research on Geographic Ontology", Istituto per Ricerche di Dinamica dei Sistemi e di Bioingegneria, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Padua.
Faculty of History and Social Sciences, Università di Trento, Italy ("Social Objects")

Sep. 1999
Buffalo Socratic Society, Buffalo, NY (“What is a Substance?”)

Oct. 1999
Royal Military College of Canada, Ottawa (“The Cognitive Geometry of War”).
Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto (“On Wombs, Beaver Dams and Spaceships: An Ontology of Organism-Niche Relationships”)
Department of Philosophy, University of Utah (“The Analytic-Continental Divide”)
Department of Philosophy, Weber State University, Utah (“Foreign Bodies”)
Department of Geography, University of Utah (“Ontological Engineering and Geographic Information Science”)

Nov. 1999   
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (“Should the Baby Live?”, Panel on the Philosophy of Peter Singer)

Dec. 1999   
Hamburger Kreis, Universität Hamburg (“Die ganze Welt ist eine Bühne”)

Jan. 2000   
Seminar für Philosophie, Universität Hamburg (“Meinong und die Phantasie-Maschine”)

Feb. 2000   
Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg (“Gegenstände und ihre Umwelten: Der ökologische Ansatz in der wissenschaftlichen Philosophie”)
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Salzburg (“Ein neues Kategoriensystem für die Wissenschaftstheorie”)

Mar. 2000   
Vorarlberger Industriellenvereinigung, Feldkirch, Austria (“Plädoyer für den Kapitalismus”)
Department of Philosophy, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (“Mereology and Quantum Mechanics”)
Department of Philosophy, Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej Universita, Lublin, Poland (“Meinong and the Phantasy-Machine”)

Apr. 2000   
European Media Lab, Villa Bosch, Heidelberg (“Ontology: Philosophical and Computational”)

Nov. 2000   
Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Budapest (“Common Sense and Quantum Mechanics”)
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Graz (“Referenz und Vagheit” and “Aristoteles, das Internet und die neue Physik”)
Universität München, Ringvorlesung (Public Lecture) in the series Kann man heute noch etwas anfangen mit Aristoteles? (“Aristoteles und die vernetzte Welt”)
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Erfurt (“Referenz und Wahrheit”)

Jan. 2001   
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Düsseldorf (“Embryontology” and “Aristoteles, das Internet und die neue Physik”)
Intistut für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Düsseldorf (“Semantik für Realisten”)
Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo (“The Windowing of Attention in Pictures”)

Feb. 2001   
Institut für Philosophie, Universität Köln (“Intentionalität als Projektion”)

Apr. 2001   
Center for Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo (“Geographic Objects and Their Categories”, with David Mark)
Department of Philosophy, SUNY Brockport (“The Meaning of Life”, with Berit Brogaard)

June 2001   
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas , UNAM, Mexico City (“The Meaning of Life”)

Aug. 2001   
Liberty and Morality Advanced Seminar, Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington NY (“Liberty and the Meaning of Life”, “Morality and the Meaning of Life”)
Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, August 30 (“The Meaning of Life”)

Sep. 2001       

Department of Economics, George Mason University, September 7 (“Capitalism and the Meaning of Life”)

 

Oct. 2001       

Buffalo IGERT Program Workshop on Categories, October 26-27 (“Geographic Categories”, with David Mark)

 

Nov. 2001      

Buffalo Logic Colloquium (“Granular Partitions”)

 

Jan. 2002       

Institute for Logic and Philosophy of Science and Institute for Philosophy, University of Leipzig, January 17 (“Ontologische Grundlagen der Informationswissenschaft”)

Institut für Informatik und Graduiertenkolleg Wissensrepraesentation, University of Leipzig (“Granularität und Wissensrepräsentation”)

 

Feb. 2002       

Buffalo Ontology Group, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (“'Towards a General Upper Ontology”)

History of Ideas Group, Department of Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo (“The Essence of the West”)

Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, February 28 (“Searle’s Ontology of Social Reality: Its Glory and Its Misery”)

 

Apr. 2002       

Institut für Logik und Wissenschaftstheorie, Universität Leipzig (“Das glorreiche Scheitern des natural–istischen Ansatzes in der Ontologie der sozialen Wirklichkeit John Searles”)

Colloque du ESCP-EAP, Paris (“Definitions of Terrorism”)

Centre de Recherche en Philosophie économique, ESCP, Paris, April 11 (“The War Against the West”)

CREA, Paris, April 12 (“Truth, Reference and Vagueness”)

Public Lecture Series: Terror and The War Against Terror, University of Leipzig, April 23 (“Kamikaze und der Westen”)

 

May. 2002     

Faculty of Information Science and Statistics, Prague University of Economics, May 15 (“Ontology as Mas–ter Discipline of Information Science”)

Department of Philosophy, Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej Universita, Lublin, Poland (“A Unified Theory of Vagueness and Granularity”)

Institut für Philosophie, Universität Bonn (“Wie testet man eine philosophische Theorie empirisch?”)

 

Jun. 2002       

Philosophisches Kolloquium, Universität Leipzig, June 26 (“Was ist Wahrheit?”)

 

Jul. 2002        

Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Institut für Philosophie, Universität Würzburg, July 2 (“Vom Sinn des Lebens. Versuch einer Definition”)

Department of Philosophy, University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 16 (“How to Test a Philosophical Theory Empirically”)

Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Universität Koblenz, July 23 (“Objects, Roles and Processes: A Basic Formal Ontology for Economics”)

 

Oct. 2002       

Wolfgang Paul Prize Presentation, University of Leipzig (“Was ist Gesundheit?–und andere onto–logische Fragen”)

 

Nov. 2002      

Cognitive Science Seminar, University at Buffalo (“SNAP and SPAN”)

Department of Philosophy, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 11 (“Morality, Hap–piness and the Meaning of Life”)

Acton Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan (“What is to be done? On Achieve–ments and the Social Web of Meaning”)

 

Dec. 2002      

Laboratory of Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento, Italy, December 9-11 (A cycle of six lectures on the “Ontology of Law, Economics and Human Interaction”, organized as part of the opening ceremonies of the new Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology of the Italian National Research Council)

 

Jan. 2003       

Department of Computing, Imperial College, London (“Formal Ontology and Information Systems”)

 

Feb. 2003       

Buffalo Ontology Group, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (“Against Fantology”)

University at Buffalo School of Management-School of Informatics Joint Study Group (“Ontology in Buffalo”)

 

Mar. 2003      

Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 21 (“The Meaning of Life and the Measure of Civilizations”)

 

Apr. 2003       

Institut für Philosophie, Universität Leipzig (“Pro und Contra Iraq-Krieg”)

 

May. 2003     

Kolloquium zur praktischen Philosophie, Universität Leipzig (“Vielfalt des Liber–tarismus”)

Depart–ment of Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School (“The IFOMIS Pro–ject”)

 

Jun. 2003       

Public Lecture, Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig (“Ontologie und die Ver–ein–heitlichung medi–zinischen Wissens”)

Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva (“Truthmakers: The Exten–sion of a Property”)

 

Jul. 2003        

Institute for Cognitive Systems, University of Bremen (“Towards Geo–dyna–mic Ontology”)

Pub–lic Lecture, University of Medical Informatics Tyrol (“Ontologie und die Integration des medizinischen Wissens”)

 

Nov. 2003      

Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University (“Kamikaze and the West”)

Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan (“On the Proper Treatment of Classes in Biomedical Informatics”)

Center for Philosophical Studies, University of Tokyo (“From Aristotle to Husserl: Towards an Ontology of Environments”)

 

Dec. 2003      

Centro Interuniversitario di Ontologia Teorica e Applicata, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Torino (“On Searle’s Social Ontology”)

Research Group in Uniform Terminology for European Private Law, Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche, Università di Torino (“Ontologies in Law and Medicine”)

 

Jan. 2004       

Department of Medical Informatics, University of Freiburg (“Biomedizinische Ontologien. Die Arbeit des IFOMIS-Instituts”)

 

Feb. 2004       

National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD (“Formal Principles of Biomedical Ontologies”)

National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD (“Medical FactNet”)

Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (“The Metaphysics of Medicine”)

 

Mar. 2004      

Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia (“The Ecological Approach to Information Processing”)

Department of Computer Science, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia (“Basic Formal Ontology”)

Department of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, Australia (“The Gene Ontology”)

Logic Colloquium, University of Melbourne, Australia (“The Logic of Biological Classification”)

Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Australia, March 5 (“The Semantic Web”)

 

Apr. 2004       

Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (“The Gene Ontology”)

SNERG Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, April 23 (“Medical FactNet: A New Methodology for the Construction and Validation of Information Resources for Consumer Health”)

 

Jun. 2004       

Department of Biological Structure, Faculty of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle (“SNAP and SPAN: From the Foundational Model of Anatomy to the Physiology Reference Ontology”)

         Department of Philosophy and Department of Linguistics, Saarland University (“Prospects for Biomedical Ontology: From Aristotle to the Human Genome Project”)

 

Jul. 2004        

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, July 26 (“Classes and Classification in Biology”).

 

Oct. 2004       

Buffalo Logic Colloquium, October 14 (“The Logic of Biological Classification”)

 

Dec. 2004      

Bioinformatics Group, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, December 2 (“On Relations in Biological Ontologies”)

 

Jan. 2005       

Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, January 17 (“Ontologies: The Next Generation”)

Institut für Philosophie, Saarland University, Germany, January 25 (“Aristoteles 2005, oder: Was die Metaphysik zur heutigen Biomedizin beitragen kann”)

 

Mar. 2005      

Graduate School, University at Buffalo, Research Ethics Seminar, March 3 (“International Standard Bad Philosophy”)

College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo, Cutting Edge Lecture Series, March 5 (“Tracking the Human Genome”)

 

May 2005      

Forum: Neue Methoden und Verfahren der  Informationsverarbeitung im Gesundheitswesen, Lehrstuhl für Medizinische Informatik, Universität Erlangen, May 31 (“Die Ontologie biomedizinischer Daten”)

 

Jun. 2005       

LabOnt (Laboratory for Applied Ontology), University of Turin, June 20 (“The Ontology of Documents”)