Barry Smith

 Invited Addresses (Professional Meetings and Symposia)

May 1977
Philosophy, Literature and Art, Colloquium organised at Balliol and St. Catherine's College, Oxford ("Ingarden and Literary Theory")

Jun. 1977
Hegel and Husserl Workshop, University of Warwick ("Husserlian Phenomenology and the Principles of Methodological Individualism")

Sep. 1978
Die Philosophie Franz Brentanos, Conference in Graz, sponsored by the Brentano Foundation (as commentator)

Apr. 1979
The Theory of the Free Society, Liberty Fund Colloquium in St. Anne's College, Oxford (as commentator)

Jul. 1979
Zweites Tübinger Wittgenstein Symposium, sponsored by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Tübingen (as commentator)

Sep. 1979
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, Colloquium organised as part of the Steirische Herbst, Graz ("Kunst, Konkurrenz und Kapitalismus")

Apr. 1980
Liberty and Tradition, Liberty Fund Colloquium in Oxford (as commentator)

Oct. 1980
Österreichische und ungarische Philosophie, Colloquium sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Institute, Budapest ("Austrian and Hungarian Philosophy: On the Logic of Wittgenstein and Pauler")

Apr. 1981
Liberty and the Market, Liberty Fund Colloquium in Oxford (as commentator)

Jun. 1981
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Literature, Colloquium sponsored by the Nordic Council in Åland, Finland ("Phenomenological Foundations of Literary Theory")

Jul. 1981
Joint Session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society, Manchester ("Logic, Form and Matter")

Apr. 1982
The Theory of the Free Society II, Liberty Fund Colloquium in Oxford (as commentator)

Aug. 1982
Ehrenfels-Konferenz, sponsored by the Niederösterreichische Landesregierung, Schloss Lichtenau ("Mach und Ehrenfels: Zur Theorie der Abhängigkeit")

May 1983
Intentionality, 5th International Colloquium of the Institut de Méthodologie, held in Bienne, Switzerland ("Acta cum fundamentis in re")

Jun. 1983
Present Thinking about Parts and Wholes, Conference of the Swedish Committee for Future Oriented Research in Lund, Sweden ("Logical and Philosophical Remarks on Parts and Wholes")

Dec. 1983
Symposium Adolf Reinach, Conference organised by the Centrale Interfaculteit, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Holland ("Judgment and Belief: Some Reinachian Notes on Logic")

May 1984
Methods for the Study of Cultural Objects, Conference organised by the Nordic Council in the University of Göteborg, Sweden ("The Concept of Aesthetic Order")

Jun. 1984
The Descriptive Psychology of the Brentano School, International Conference organised in Trieste und Bologna by the Brentano-Foundation and by the Universities of Graz, Trieste und Bologna ("The Substance of Brentano's Ontology")
Foundations of Cognitive Psychology: The Work of Köhler, Selz and Lewin, Colloquium of the Werner Reimers-Stiftung held in Bad Homburg, Germany ("On the Foundations of Gestalt Theory")

Oct. 1984
Vienne 1880-1938: Fin de Siècle et Modernité, Conference organised by the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Institut Autrichien in Paris ("On the Modification of Feeling")

Nov. 1984
Essential Necessity, Conference organised by the International Academy of Philosophy, Dallas, Texas ("Material A Priori Structures")
Sprachtheorie im Anschluss an Karl Bühler, Colloquium organised by the University of Essen and sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, November 1984 ("Materials Towards a History of Speech Act Theory")

Dec. 1984
Zur Philosophie und Sprachtheorie Anton Martys, Colloquium of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung in the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland ("Brentano and Marty: A Correspondence Theory of Intentionality")

Apr. 1985
Emozioni e sentimento nel pensiero filosofico contemporaneo, Symposium organised by the Commune di Bolzano, Italy and the University of Milan in Schloss Maretsch, Bolzano ("über Gefühle und Phantasiegefühle: Eine Betrachtung zur Ontologie der Kunsterfahrung")

May 1985
Phénoménologie et Gestaltthéorie: Histoire et Actualité de l'Ontologie formelle, Conference organised by the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris ("Boundaries and the Continuum")

Aug. 1985
Austrian Philosophy, Colloquium organised as part of the 10th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria ("A Theory of Austria")

Sep. 1985
The Habsburg Monarchy in Transition, 1890-1914, Conference organised by the Institute of Slavonic and East European Studies in the University of London ("Theories of Austria")

Oct. 1985
Lukács und Österreich, Colloquium organised by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and by the Österreichisches Kulturinstitut, Budapest ("Bela Zalai und die Metaphysik des reinen Seins")
The Philosophy of Roman Ingarden, International Conference held in Cracow, Poland ("The Ontology of Epistemology")
Beiträge zur österreichischen Philosophie, Colloquium organised by the Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für österreichische Philosophie, Graz ("Die Kreativität der österreichischen Philosophie: Einige Erklärungsversuche")

Dec. 1985
Linguaggi e società oggi, Colloquium organised by the University of Trieste and the Goethe Institut, Trieste ("Die Substitutionstheorie der Kunst")
Symposium Alexander Pfänder, Conference organised by the Centrale Interfaculteit of the Rijksuniversiteit, Utrecht ("What is special about Munich Phenomenology?")

Mar. 1996
Interpretation, Human Agency and Economics, Conference organised by the Center for the Study of Market Process, Fairfax, Virginia (as commentator)

Sep. 1986
Husserlian Perspectives on Cognition and Ontology, International Symposium organised by the Institute for the Philosophy of Language, University of Milan, in the Villa Feltrinelli, Gargnano, Lago di Garda, Italy ("Indexicality and Categorial Grammar")
The Vienna Circle and the Lemberg-Warsaw School, an International Symposium organised at Jablonna, Warsaw, by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Institute in Warsaw ("Vienna - Prague - Lemberg - Berlin")

Nov. 1986
100 Years of Polish Philosophy, an International Conference in the University of Manchester ("Kotarbinski on the Nature of Things")

May 1987
The Object and Its Identity, International Conference in Bolzano and Trento, sponsored by the University of Trento and the Cultural Assessorat of Bolzano, Italy ("An Overview of Brentanian Ontology")

Nov. 1987
La Critique de la raison en Europe centrale, Conference held in the University of Geneva ("Kafka and Brentano" and "Critique de la raison économique")

Mar. 1988
The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl, Annual Conference of the British Society for Phenomenology in St Edmund Hall, Oxford ("Husserl's Idealism: The Grain of Truth")

Apr. 1988
The Descriptive Psychology of Franz Brentano, International Conference in the University of Würzburg ("The Soul and Its Parts")

Jun. 1988
L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui, International Conference in the University of Geneva,("Universals")

Jul. 1988
Theorie und Erfahrung in der neuen kognitiven Psychologie, International Conference of the Werner Reimers Stiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany ("Die Bausteine des Psychischen: Versuch einer Kategorienlehre der Intentionalität")

Aug. 1988
Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, 13th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Conference in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria ("Topology for Philosophers")
Seminar Joachim Jungius, Organised as part of the 13th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Conference in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria ("Logica Kirchbergensis")

Sep. 1988
Praxeology and the Philosophy of Economics, Conference organised by the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Institute in Warsaw ("Austrian Philosophy and Austrian Economics")
Rationalité et Objectivités. Nouvelles approches, Conference organised by the Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle, Cerisy, Normandy ("Aristotelian Robotics")
Wo bin ich? Selbstbewusstsein, Selbstbestimmung und die Reflexivität der Kommunikation, Conference organised in the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (Commentator on H.-N. Castañeda)

Dec. 1988
Symposium of the American Association for the Philosophical Study of Society at the Eastern Division meeting of American Philosophical Association. Commentator: E. Lepore, Chair: D. Davidson ("Realism and the Correspondence Theory of Truth")

Mar. 1989
Hermeneutique et Nihilisme, Premier Congres Européen de Philosophy, Université Libre de Bruxelles ("Sur l'impossibilité de traduire la philosophie allemande")
Computer und Bildung. Praktische und theoretische Aspekte, Interdisciplinary Symposium of the International Academy for Philosophie, Schaan, Liechtenstein, March 1989 ("Einführung zum Programm")

Apr. 1989
The Legacy of Carl Menger, International Conference in Duke University, North Carolina ("Ludwig von Mises and the Mengerian Legacy")
Zur philosophischen Aktualität Heideggers, Symposium of the Alexander von Humboldt- Stiftung, Bonn-Bad Godesberg ("über die Gründe für die Nichtübersetzbarkeit der deutschen Philosophie")

May 1989
The Artist and His Work, Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics in Helsinki ("What are Works of Art Built For?")

Aug. 1989
Wittgenstein: Eine Neubewertung, 14th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria ("Wittgensteinian Philosophy and the Culture of the Commentary")

Sep. 1989
Evolving Knowledge in Natural Science and Artificial Intelligence, Symposium of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science and of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, University of Reading ("Naive Physics and Folk Psychology")

Oct. 1989
Die Gedankenwelt Sir Karl Poppers. Kritischer Rationalismus im Dialog, Conference of the Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für neuere österreichische Geistesgeschichte, Schloß Hofen, Lochau ("Grundlegung eines fallibilistischen Apriorismus")

Nov. 1989
Gestalt Psychology: Its Origins, Foundations and Influence, An International Workshop of the Centro Fiorentino di Storia e Filosofia della Scienza, Florence ("Theories of the Commonsense World")

Jan. 1990
The Methodology of Carl Menger, Symposium in King's College, London ("Aristotle and the Foundations of Economics")

May 1990
Internationale Brentano-Konferenz. Conference organized by the Forschungsstelle und Dokumentationszentrum für Österreichische Philosophie, Graz ("Die neue Brentano-Forschung")

Sep. 1990
Cognitive Science in Finland, Conference organized by the Finnish Academy of Sciences at the Seili Island Research Institute in Finland ("On the Methodologies of Cognitive Science" and "On the Structures of the Common-Sense World")

Oct. 1991
Geisteswissenschaftliches und literarisches übersetzen im internationalen Kulturaustausch, Symposium of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Sonthofen ("über die Grenzen der übersetzbarkeit: Eine philosophische Fallstudie")
T. G. Masaryk und die Brentano-Schule, International Symposium organised by the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague ("From T. G. Masaryk to Václav Havel")

Mar. 1992
Philosophy and Political Change in Eastern Europe, Monist Colloquium sponsored by the Bradley and Soros Foundations in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest ("The New European Philosophy")

Apr. 1992
Ansatz und Wirkung der philosophischen Psychologie Franz Brentanos, International Colloquium sponsored by the Universities of Würzburg and Trento at the Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Como ("Franz Brentano: Eine Zusammenfassung")

May 1992
Weltanschauung, Ideologie und Philosophie. Kolloquium zu Ehren von Professor Joseph M. Bochenski, University of Freiburg, Switzerland ("Die wissenschaftliche Philosophie und ihre gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen")

Jun. 1992
Wie erkennt man Naturrecht?, Interdisciplinary Symposium at the International Academy for Philosophy, Schaan, Liechtenstein ("Philosophische Argumente gegen die Erkennbarkeit des Naturrechts")

Feb. 1993
European Philosophy and the American Academy, The Second Monist Colloquium, held at Wingspread, Wisconsin ("Commentary on Norris")

Mar. 1993
International Workshop on Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation, National Research Council of Italy, Padua ("Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Reality")

Apr. 1993
Ungarn und die Brentano-Schule: Zu einem Kapitel mitteleuropäischer Philosophie, Conference organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the Austrian Institute, Budapest ("Brentano, Mach and Hayek")
Hayek Memorial Conference, organized by the Department of Economics, University College, London in collaboration with the Goethe Institute and the Austrian Institute, London ("The Intellectual Order: A Study of Hayekian Psychology")

Jun. 1993
Internationales Symposium der Deutschen Hegel-Vereinigung, Stuttgart ("Philosophieren und Kommentieren. überlegungen zu ihrem Verhältnis")

Nov. 1993
The Legacy of Brentano, Conference organized by the Jagiellonian University, the International Cultural Centre and the Austrian General Consulate in Cracow ("Boundaries")
The Formal Ontology of Space, Conference organized by the National Research Council of Italy, Padua ("On the Coincidence of Boundaries")

Dec. 1993
The Sensory Order, Conference organized by the Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari, Pisa, Italy ("Steps Towards a Cognitive Economics: Connectionism, Individualism and The Sensory Order")

Feb. 1994
Räume, 11th Hamburg Colloquium on Cognitive Science, organized by the Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg ("Kognitive Geographie")
Der Begriff des Sachverhalts zwischen Linguistik und Philosophie, Diskussionsveranstaltung of the Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft, Universität Hamburg ("Die Einheit der Sachverhalte")

Apr. 1994
Philosophy and Westernization, Central European University, Prague ("Which Western philosophy?")

May 1994
The Phenomenology of Values and Valuing, Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida ("The Background of Value Theory")

Jul. 1994
Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Workshop organized as part of the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, Buffalo ("Introduction: Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science")

Aug. 1994
Parts and Wholes, Conceptual Part-Whole Relations and Formal Mereology, Workshop organized as part of the 11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam ("Fiat Objects")
The British Tradition in 20th Century Philosophy, 17th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg am Wechsel ("The Vindication of Common Sense")
Formal Techniques in Ontology, Workshop organized by the Institut für Philosophie, Universität Konstanz ("The Joints of Reality: On the Typology of Demarcations")

Sep. 1994
The Ontology and Epistemology of Relations, Conference organized by the Department of Philosophy, SUNY Buffalo ("Comment on McMahon")
Theories of Judgment: Assertion and Truth-Making, Leiden Seminar for the History and Philosophy of Logic and Semantics, University of Leiden, Holland ("The Grain of Truth")

Nov. 1994
Austrian Philosophy: From Brentano to Haller, University of Arizona, Tucson ("The Neurath-Haller Thesis")
The Actuality of Gestalt Theory, International Conference of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Plenary Lecture: "Cognitive Metaphysics"; Closing Speech: "Ehrenfels, Musil, Lakoff: On the Actuality of Gestalt Theory")

Dec. 1994
Ecological Phenomenology, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston ("Ethical Relativity and Husserl's Crisis: Commentary on Kohak")
Society for the Study of Husserl's Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Boston ("The Categorial Field")

Mar. 1995
Phänomenologie und Logischer Empirismus, Internationale Tagung aus Anlass des Zentenariums des österreichischen Philosophen, Mathematikers, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaftlers Felix Kaufmann (1895-1949), Wien, Juridicum der Universität Wien ("Wien, Österreich und die Hauptströmungen der gegenwärtigen Philosophie")
Symposium on Ontology, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco ("The Immaculate Replacement: Commentary on Ehring")
Society for the Study of Husserl's Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco ("The Ontology of Edmund Husserl")

May 1995
The Cultural Context of Electronic Networking, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen ("Electronic Networking: The Market for Information")
Dziedzictwo Filozofii Analitycznej: Dorobek Szkoly Lwowsko Warszawskeij, University of Lublin (UMCS), Poland ("Why Polish Philosophy Does Not Exist")
Science et Philosophie en France et en Autriche de 1880 à 1930, CNRS and Austrian Institute, Paris ("The Geography of Convention")

Sep. 1995
Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '95), Semmering, Austria ("Performative Maps")
International Meinong-Conference, University of Graz ("More Things in Heaven and Earth")

Oct. 1995
Actualité cognitive de la Phénoménologie: Les Défis de la Naturalisation, Université de Bordeaux III, France ("Truth and the Visible Field")

Nov. 1995
The Open Society After 50 Years, Centre for the Study of Nationalism, Central European University, Prague ("The Open Society and Its New Enemies")

Dec. 1995
Topology and Dynamics in Cognition and Perception, Centro Internationale di Studi Semiotici e Cognitivi, Università degli Studi, Repubblica di San Marino ("Cognitive Geography")
Society for Philosophy and Geography, Session at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting in New York City ("On Drawing Lines on a Map")

Apr. 1996
Kinds and Categories, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Twentieth Annual Symposium in Philosophy ("Categories, Deep and Superficial")
Inherent and Instrumental Value, 24th Conference on Value Inquiry, International Society for Value Inquiry. D'Youville College, Buffalo, NY ("Blind Realism")
The Austrian Tradition in Logic: From Bolzano to the Vienna Circle, University of Texas at Austin and Austrian Cultural Institute ("Austrian Philosophy and the Brentanian Tradition")
E Pluribus Unum, A Conference on Diversity, University at Buffalo ("The Pedagogy of Pluralism")

May 1996
Shadows, Holes, Blobs, Surfaces, and Other Entia Minora, A Workshop in Ontology, Columbia University, New York ("The Metaphysics of Real Estate")

Aug. 1996
Current Issues in Political Philosophy: Justice and Welfare in Society and World Order, 19th International Wittgenstein Symposium Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria ("The Cognitive Geometry of War")

Sep. 1996
Can Epistemology be Unified?, Marvin Farber Conference, University at Buffalo ("Commentary on L. Hankinson Nelson")

Oct. 1996
The Austrian Tradition: From Bolzano to the Vienna Circle. Symposium II, University of Texas at Austin and Austrian Cultural Institute ("Husserl and Ontology")

Nov. 1996
Formal Models of the Common-Sense World, Initiative 21 Conference of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, San Marcos, Texas ("The Formal Ontology of Common Sense")
The Metaphysics of Real Estate: Comparative (Cross-Cultural) Ontologies for Cadastral Systems, Department of Geoinformation, Technical University, Vienna, Austria ("Ontology, Epistemology and the Parceling of Space")

Dec. 1996
The Intellectual Legacy of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, István Széchenyi College for Advanced Studies of the Budapest University of Economics, Budapest ("Philosophy in Austria-Hungary from Bolzano to Hayek")

Mar. 1997
Society for Philosophy and Geography, Session at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting ("Prolegomena to a Metaphysics of Real Estate")
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Invited Paper ("From Cognitive Linguistics to Cognitive Metaphysics")

Apr. 1997
Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama ("The Political Economy of Geography")
History of the Concepts of Space, Workshop sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Center for Cognitive Science, and the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis of the University at Buffalo ("The State as Work of Art: Theories of Space in Baroque Philosophy")
Academic Freedom in Perspective, A Conference at Canisius College ("Academic Freedom and Academic Responsibility")
Annual Conference of the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship, University of Toronto (Keynote Speech: "The Open Society and Its New Multiculturalist Enemies")

May 1997
Les Revues parlées, International Guest Lecturer Series of the Centre Pompidou, Paris ("Jargon philosophique ou Langage technique?")

Sep. 1997
La Philosophie autrichienne, conference of the Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle, Cerisy, France ("Les Objets sociaux")
Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT '97), University of Pittsburgh, September 1997 ("Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries", with Achille Varzi)

Oct. 1997
Postmodernism and the Sokal Affair, International Conference sponsored by the Department of Physics, University of Helsinki (Debate with Alan Sokal)
Annual Assembly, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, Buffalo ("Formal Ontology of Geographic Objects", with Achille Varzi)
The Origins of Property, Conference organized in the Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo ("Property and Sovereignty")
Geographic Information Systems and Political Redistricting: Social Groups, Representational Values, and Electoral Boundaries, Conference of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University at Buffalo ("Bizarre Shapes")

Feb. 1998
Cognition and Ontology, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld ("Small Worlds: The Ecology of Cognition")

Jun. 1998
International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems, Trento, sponsored by the Italian National Research Council ("The Basic Tools of Formal Ontology" (Opening Keynote Address); "Ontological Tools for Geographic Representation" (with Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi))
Ontology of Fields. Research Meeting of the NSF Varenius Initiative, Bar Harbor, Maine ("Basic Tools of Ontology")

Jul. 1998
Australasian Association of Philosophy, Annual Conference, Sydney ("Truthmaker Realism")

Aug. 1998
Panel on the Philosophy of John Searle, World Congress of Philosophy, Boston ("Real Estate as Institutional Fact", with response by Professor Searle)
Symposium on Technology and Communication, World Congress of Philosophy, Boston (Invited Talk: "The Genres of Philosophy")

Sep. 1998
The World in Perspective, conference honoring the 90th birthday of Lewis H. Hahn, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL ("Context, Ontology and Perception")

Oct. 1998
The Self and the Other. International Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotics, Oslo (Plenary lecture: "The Cognitive Geometry of War")

Nov. 1998
Spontaneous Orders: Austrian Economics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics, International Conference sponsored by the University of Copenhagen and the Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark (Two plenary lectures: "The Ontology of Social Reality - From Carl Menger to John Searle" and "The Ecology of Social Reality - From Aristotle to Roger Barker")

Jan. 1999
Bridging the Analytic-Continental Divide, Tel Aviv University ("A Theory of Divides")

Feb. 1999
Annual Meeting of the Husserl Circle, University of Memphis ("Husserlian Ecology")

Mar. 1999
Philosophical Realism and the Central European Tradition, Fourth Matchette Foundation Symposium, University of Texas at Austin ("Truth and Truthmaking", Symposium with David Armstrong)

Apr. 1999
Annual Conference of the National Association of Scholars, Chicago ("The Construction of Social Reality", Debate with John R. Searle)

May 1999
Nature de l'expérience perceptive, CREA, Paris ("Ecology")

Aug. 1999
International Conference of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg/Wechsel, Austria (“Surrounding Space: Principles of Topological Ecology”)
International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Cracow (“Mereology, Topology, Ecology: A Formal Theory of Organism-Niche Relations”)
COSIT ’99 – Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Hamburg, Germany (“Agglomerations” and “Ontology and Geographic Objects: An Empirical Study of Cognitive Categorization” (with David M. Mark and Barbara Tversky))

Oct. 1999
The Last Days of the Human Race: Karl Kraus Symposium, University at Buffalo (“Kraus and Serbia, Kraus and Weininger, Kraus and Women”)

Nov. 1999
The Metaphysics of Consciousness: David Chalmers’ The Conscious Mind in Historical and Contemporary Perspective, University at Buffalo (“The Environment of Mind”)

Dec. 1999   
Analytic Philosophy at the Turn of the Millennium, University of Santiago de Compostella (“On Analytic and Continental Philosophy: A Case Study in the Ontology of Ideas and Institutions”)
La Structure du Monde: Objets, Propriétés, états du choses, Colloque international  de Philosophie de Grenoble (“The Geography of Reality”)

Mar. 2000   
Brain Death and Human Identity, Symposium, University of Hamburg (“Ontology and Identity”)

Apr. 2000   
American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque, Invited Paper (“Truth in the Logical Investigations”)
Committee on International Cooperation, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque, Invited Panel Session on Philosophy and the Internet (“On Philosophy on the Internet”)
Society for the Study of Husserl’s Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque (“Formal Ontology in the Logical Investigations”)
Society for Philosophy and Geography, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, Albuquerque (“On Setting into Relief: The Ontology and Cognition of Space”)

May 2000   
Writing the Austrian Traditions: A Conference on the Relations between Austrian Philosophy and Literature, University of Toronto (“Meinong and the Phantasy-Machine”)
Husserl’s Logische Untersuchungen – A Centenary Conference, University of Copenhagen (“Grids”)
Kataster Symposium, Institut für Geoinformation und Landesvermessung, Technische Universität, Vienna (“Wie man eine Welt schafft: Eine Einführung in die Ontologie des Katasters”)

Jun. 2000
Ontologische Aspekte der Wissensrepräsentation, University of Leipzig (“Ontologie für Informatiker”)
Philosophie und Wissenschaft, University of Koblenz (“Kant, Husserl und die Physik”)

Aug. 2000
Rationality and Irrationality. 23rd International Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg, Austria (“The Chinese Rune Argument”)

Sep. 2000
Geographical Domain and Geographical Information Systems: Euro-Conference on Ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards, Sponsored by the European Commission, La Londe-les-Meures (France), (Two Plenary Lectures: “” and “Mont Blanc, Lake Constance, Sakhalin Island: Gaps, Gluts and Vagueness”)

Oct. 2000
GIScience 2000: First International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Savannah, Georgia (Opening Plenary Lecture: “Ontological Imperialism”)

Feb. 2001   
Die Philosophie und die Wissenschaften: Beckers überlegungen zur Begründung der Mathematik, Fernuniversität Hagen (“Was heisst mathematische Existenz”?)
Ontologische Aspekte der Wissensmodellierung. Workshop des Graduiertenkollegs Wissensrepräsentation, Universität Leipzig (“Eine Lehre von Aufteilungen” and “Referenz als Projektion”)

Mar. 2001
Austrian Law and Economics: The Contributions of Adolf Reinach and Murray N. Rothbard, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama (“The A Priori Ontology of Social Reality”)
Austrian Scholars Conference, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama (“Searle’s New Theory of Social Objects”)

May 2001
Les Recherches Logiques d’Edmund Husserl: Origines et Posterite de la Phenomenologie, Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University (“Intentionality as Projection”)

June 2001
Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science, Summer Assembly of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, Buffalo (“Ontology Good and Bad”)

July 2001
The I in Geographic Information Science, Meeting on Fundamental Questions in GIScience organized by Keele University, Manchester (“A General Theory of Spatial and Non-Spatial Partitions”)

August 2001
Wittgenstein and the Future of Philosophy: A Reassessment after 50 Years, 24th International Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg, Austria (“The Grain of Truth”)

Sep. 2001
Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science, COSIT ’01, Morro Bay, California, September 20-23 (“True Grid”, “A Taxonomy of Granular Partitions” (with Thomas Bittner), “Features, Objects, and Other Things: Ontological Distinctions in the Geographic Domain” (with David Mark and André Skupin) (refereed)

The Philosophy of a Free Society, Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, September 28-29 (“Capitalism and the Meaning of Life”)

Oct. 2001

Formal Ontology and Information Systems: Second International Conference, Ogunquit, Maine (“Granular Partitions and Vagueness” (with Thomas Bittner), “GOL–A General Ontological Language” (with Wolfgang Degen, Barbara Heller and Heinrich Herre)

International Conference on Culture and Space, Quebec, Canada, October 19-20 (“Language, Maps and Other Cultural Artefacts”)

Nov. 2001

European Union COST Action G9 on Modeling Real-Property Transactions, University of Bremen, Germany (“The Metaphysics of Real Estate and the Cadastre”)

Assessing Analytic Philosophy: Twentieth Century Analytic Philosophy in Retrospect 1900–2000, University at Buffalo, November 9-10 (“Response and Further Issues in Continental Analytic Philosophy”)

Dec. 2001

New York Association of Scholars, New York, December 2 (“Academic Standards and the Meaning of Life”)

Apr. 2002

Ontological Spring, Introductory Workshop in Ontology, Naumburg, Germany (Four talks: “What is Ontology”, “Tools of Ontology: Parts, Wholes and Universals”, “Partitions of Reality”, “Ontology in Information Science: Its Glory and Its Misery”)

May 2002

Higher Education and Democracy in Peace and War. Tenth National Conference of the National Association of Scholars, Washington DC, March 31–June 2 (“After Relativism, What?”)

Jun. 2002

Opening Lecture, Alexander von Humboldt Conference of Philosophers, Berlin, 19–20 June (“How to Test a Philosophical Theory Empirically”)

Physik, Information und Informationssysteme. Symposium of the Arnold-Sommerfeld-Gesellschaft and the University Leipzig, June 20-21 (“Quantentheorie–Kein Trost für Kantianer”)

Jul. 2002

Between Data Science and Everyday Web Practice. Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Klassifikation, Universität Mannheim (“The Theory of Granular Partitions: A New Paradigm for Ontology”)

Aug. 2002

Persons–An Interdisciplinary Approach, 25th International Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg, Austria, August 11-17 (“The Moral Significance of the Question When a Human Being Begins to Exist” and “The Metaphysics of Human Origins” (both with Daniel Cohnitz))

MIE2002: 17th International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Informatics, Budapest, August 25-29 (“Understanding the Message: Linking Aristotelian Realism to Linguistic Functionalism”, keynote lecture, co-authored with Werner Ceusters)

Oct. 2002

Ontologie Analitiche, Centro Interuniversitario di Ontologia Teorica e Applicata, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Torino, October 24-26 (“The True™ Story”)

Nov. 2002

Action-Oriented Approaches in Geographic Information Science, University of Maine, November 2-4 (Barry Smith and Pierre Grenon, “Ontology for Dynamic Entities”)

Formal Concepts, University of Geneva, November 22-25 (“The Cornucopia of Formal Relations”)

A New Research Agenda for Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, November 29-30 (“The World as Database”)

Jan. 2003

Properties, Modalities, and States of Affairs, University of Konstanz, January 24-25 (“Against Fantology: The Case of Properties”)

Feb. 2003

Towards Intelligent Dictionaries? Seminar on Multilingual Terminography, Department of Applied Linguistics, Erasmus University, Brussels (Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Ontology for Multilingual Terminography”)

Apr. 2003

The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality, University at Buffalo (“Searle and de Soto: The New Ontology of the Social World”)

Colloquium on Knowledge Management, Department of Language and Speech, Nijmegen University (Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “A Realist Ontology for Natural Language Understanding”)

Ontologia della proprietà intellettuale, Centro Interuniversitario di Ontologia Teorica e Applicata, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università di Torino (“How to Rent a Car, and Why You Can’t Rent a Person”)

6th AGILE Conference on GIScience (Annual Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories), Lyon, France, April 24-26 (David M. Mark, Andrew Turk, Barry Smith, Werner Kuhn: “Ontology, Semantics, Natural Language, and Information Systems: Methodological Implications of Cross-Linguistic Studies of Geographic Terms”, read by W. Kuhn) (refereed)

May 2003

MIE 2003 (XVIIIth International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Information), St Malo, France (Opening Plenary Lecture: “Ontology, the Semantic Web, and the Unification of Medical Knowledge”)

MIE 2003 (XVIIIth International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Information), St Malo, France (Werner Ceusters, Ignace Desimpel, Barry Smith, Stefan Schulz, “Using Cross-Lingual Information to Cope with Underspecification in Formal Ontologies”) (refereed)

MIE 2003 (XVIIIth International Congress of the European Federation for Medical Information), St Malo, France (Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, Workshop on Ontology for the Medical Domain)

TEPR (Toward an Electronic Patient Record) 2003: Electronic Patient Management, 19th Annual Conference of the Medical Records Institute, San Antonio, Texas (Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, “Ontology and Medical Terminology: Why Description Logics are not Enough”, read by Werner Ceusters)

Mobile Communication, 5th Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media, Helsinki (“The Ecological Approach to Mobile Communication”)

Semantic Ontology–Ontological Semantics, University of Leipzig (“Ontology: Generalizing Davidsonian Semantics”)

Searle and the Ontology of Civilization, Center for Theoretical Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (“On Free-Standing Y-Terms”)

Jun. 2003

Wissenschaftstheorie in Ökonomie und Wirtschaftsinformatik, University of Ko–blenz (“Vertrag. Vertrauen und Verbindlichkeit: Die Ontologie der mensch––lichen Interaktion”)

Workshop on Medical Ontology, Division of Medical Informatics, University of Geneva (“Problems of Medical Ontology”)

Aug. 2003

International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo, Spain (“Cognitive Science and Biomedical Informatics: From the Gene Ontology to the Unified Medical Lan–guage System”)

Symposium on Integrative BioInformatics, University of Bielefeld, August 4-5 (“Ontology assisted database integration”, paper read by Jean-Luc Verschelde)

Sep. 2003

International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute (ISCSI), Bad Zwischenahn, Germany (Tutorial and Workshop on “Ontology, Space and Language”, with John Bateman)

KI 2003: Annual Conference of the German Artificial Intelligence Society, Hamburg, Germany (“The Unified Medical Language System and the Gene Ontology” (with Anand Kumar)) (refereed)

Reference Ontology and Application Ontology, Workship at KI 2003: Annual Conference of the German Artificial Intelligence Society, Hamburg, Germany (“Reference Ontology, Application Ontology, Terminology Ontology”)

Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2003), Ittingen, Switzerland (“Layers: A New Approach to Locating Objects in Space” (with Maureen Donnelly)) (Refereed)

Oct. 2003

Workshop on Ontologies in Medicine, CNR-ISTC, Rome (“Parts and Classes in Biomedical Ontology”)

Nov. 2003

Third International Meeting for Husserl Studies, Kyoto University (“Husserl–ian Ecology”)

Jan. 2004

Inaugural Meeting of the European Union Network of Excellence in Medical Informatics and Semantic Datamining, Linköpping (“Challenges to Biomedical Ontology”)

Mar. 2004

International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2004), Leipzig (“On the Application of Formal Principles to Life Science Data: A Case Study in the Gene Ontology”)

Apr. 2004

International Joint Meeting of the European Centre for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (EuroMISE 2004), Prague (“A General Framework for Implementation of Clinical Guidelines by Healthcare Organizations”)

May 2004

The Formal Architecture of the Gene Ontology, Leipzig (“Smart Terminologies through Ontological Principles”)

Jun. 2004

First International Workshop on Formal Biomedical Knowledge Representation (KR-MED 2004), Whistler, Canada (“Investigating Subsumption in DL-based Terminologies: A Case Study in SNOMED-CT”)

International Workshop on Holistic Epistemology and Action Theory, University of Leipzig (“Searle and De Soto–The New Ontology of the Social World”)

Jul. 2004

Husserl and the Historical Epistemology of the Sciences, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (“Formal Ontology and Biomedical Informatics: Aristotle, Darwin, Husserl”)

Tutorial in Ontology, Summer School of European Union Network of Excellence in Medical Informatics and Semantic Datamining, Balatonfüred, Hungary (“Foundations of Ontology”)

Ontology Workshop Summer School of the European Union Network of Excellence in Medical Informatics and Semantic Datamining, Balatonfüred, Hungary (“Anatomy and Time”)

Seventh Annual Bio-Ontologies Workshop, International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Glasgow (“OntOLogy and Biology”)

Aug. 2004

Analysis and Experience. 27th International Wittgenstein Conference, Kirchberg, Austria (“Forms of Life”, Plenary Lecture; “Against Predicate Logic”)

Coling: The 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland (“The Unbearable Lightness of Biomedical Informatics”, Keynote Lecture)

Computerm 2004–3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology, Geneva, Switzerland (“Dependence Relationships between Gene Ontology Terms based on TIGR Gene Product Annotations”, with Anand Kumar and Christian Borgelt)

Sep. 2004

Medinfo 2004, 7-11 September, San Francisco (“The Role of Foundational Relations in the Alignment of Biomedical Ontologies”; “Ontology-Based Error Detection in SNOMED-CT”; “Foundational Issues in Medical Ontology”; “Aspects of Ontology Creation”)

Logic, Ontology, Aesthetics: The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy, Université de Quebec à Montréal and Concordia University, September 23-26 (“Biomereology: From Formal Ontology to Biomedical Ontology”)

GMDS Innsbruck (“Biomedizinische Ontologie in Saarbrücken”, “Ontologie-basierte Qualitätssicherung medizinischer Terminologien”, “Normalizing Medical Ontologies using Basic Formal Ontology”)

Nov. 2004

Formal Ontology and Information Systems, Turin, Italy, November 3-6 (“Beyond Concepts”, “Individuals, Universals and Collections”, “The Ontology-Epistemology Divide”, “A Formal Theory of Substances, Qualities, and Universals”)

Conference: Medicine and Metaphysics, University at Buffalo, November 13-14 (“Formal Ontology and Biomedical Informatics”)

Applied Ontology Colloquium, Ontology Works Incorporated, Odenton, MD, November 16 (“From Knowledge Representation to Reality Representation”)

Ontology: Interoperability of Patient Records and Biomedical Informatics, Belgian Ministry of Health and European Commission, Brussels, November 25 (“The Future of Clinical Bioinformatics: Overcoming Obstacles to Information Integration”)

Interdisciplinary Ontology Forum in Japan, Keio University, Tokyo, November 29–30 (“Ontology and Its Applications”, keynote lecture)

Dec. 2004

Truthmakers: Twenty Years After, Université Paul Cezanne, Aix-en-Provence, France, December 9-11 (“True Stories”, with Jonathan Simon)

Author Meets Critics Session on Harry Heft, Ecological Psychology in Context, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Conference, Boston, December 27-30 (“The Hole Story”)

Jan. 2005

The Theory of European Unification, Europa Institute, University of Saarbrücken, Germany, January 18 (“The Ontology of Unification”)

Aspects of Mereotopology and Granularity in Bioontologies, University of Freiburg, Germany, January 21-22 (“Relations in Biological Ontologies”)

Apr. 2005

The Future of the UMLS Semantic Network. Workshop of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD, April 7-8, 2005 (“Semantic Network vs. Biomedical Ontology”)

Apr. 2005

Mapping the Human Body, National Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo April 16–17 (“Wounded Knees”)

Ontologies and Biomedical Informatics, Conference of the International Medical Informatics Association, Rome, April 29–May 2 (“New Desiderata for Biomedical Terminologies”)

May 2005

Forum Engelberg, Luzern, Switzerland, May 21–24 (“Language and the Future of Biomedicine”)

Ontology of Personal Memory, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken (“The Ontologically Privileged Status of the Past”: keynote address)

Universität am Schlossplatz, Volkshochschule Saarbrücken, May 29 (“Aristoteles und die Medizininformatik”)

Jun. 2005

E-CAP (European Computing and Philosophy), Mälardalen, Sweden, June 2–4 (Keynote Lecture “Biological Ontologies”)

Bio-Ontologies Workshop, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2005), Detroit, June 24 (“On the Proper Treatment of Pathologies in Biomedical Ontologies”)

Jul. 2005

European Centre for Ontological Research, Inaugural Meeting, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, July 27-28 (“Africa!”)

Aug. 2005

Medical Informatics Europe, Geneva, August 24-30 (“Wüsteria”, “The Significance of SNODENT”, “Tracking Referents in Electronic Healthcare Records”)

Sep. 2005

Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Ellicottville NY, September 15-18 (“Anatomical Information Science”)