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Barry Smith's Courses

Courses​

Here is a list of courses Barry Smith have taught over the years:

2025​

2024​

2023​

2022​

2021​

2020​

2019​

2018​

2017​

2016​

2014​

2013​

Teaching History (1977-2012)​

University at Buffalo (1991-2012)​

  • Cognition and Intentionality: Perspectives on Phenomenology and Cognitive Science, Graduate Seminar, Spring 1991
  • Continental Drift: A Conspectus of 20th Century European Philosophy, Marvin Farber Lectures, Spring 1991
  • Introduction to Philosophy, Autumn 1991 (block seminar, with P. Hare and N. Garver)
  • Formal Ontology (graduate block seminar), 1991-92
  • Social Philosophy, Spring 1991, Spring 1992, Fall 1993 (block seminars with P. Hare and N. Garver)
  • Metaphysics, Fall 1992 (block seminar, with P. Hare and N. Garver)
  • Topics in European Intellectual History, Fall 1992 (block seminar, with G. Iggers and others)
  • Methodological Problems of the Social and Cognitive Sciences (one-year graduate block seminar), 1992-93
  • Phenomenology and Existentialism, Spring 1993 (block seminar, with P. Hare and N. Garver)
  • Writing Philosophy (graduate block seminar), 1993-94
  • Epistemology, Spring 1994 (block seminar, with P. Hare)
  • Foundations of Cognitive Science (graduate lecture course), July 1994
  • Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 1994, Summer 1995, Fall 1995, Fall 1996
  • Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Fall 1994
  • Ethics, Spring 1995, Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Spring 1997
  • Cognitive Metaphysics (graduate seminar), Spring 1995
  • Austrian Philosophy, Fall 1995
  • American Pluralism: Issues of Race, Class, Sex and Gender, Spring 1996-1999
  • Husserl (graduate seminar), Spring 1996, Spring 1998, Spring 2003
  • Groundwork for the Social Sciences, Fall 1996 (jointly with M. Thalos)
  • Critical Thinking for Lawyers, Spring 1997
  • Law and Ontology (graduate seminar), Fall 1997
  • Research Ethics (graduate seminar), Spring 1998, Spring 1999
  • Philosophy and Economics (graduate seminar), Fall 1998
  • Ethics and Politics of Cross-Cultural Communication (graduate seminar), Spring 1999
  • Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception (graduate seminar), Spring 1999
  • Clinton: A Philosophical Exploration, Spring 1999
  • Introduction to Cognitive Science (graduate seminar, with Roberto Casati), Fall 1999
  • Problems in Ontology: The Metaphysics of Spatial Entities (graduate seminar), Fall 1999
  • Husserl's Logical Investigations (graduate seminar), Spring 2001
  • Geographic Ontology (graduate seminar, with David Mark), Spring 2001
  • Philosophy of Social Reality (undergraduate honors seminar), Fall 2001
  • Geospatial Ontology (graduate seminar, with Roberto Casati), Fall 2001
  • Religion, Revolution, War and Terrorism (graduate seminar), Spring 2002
  • Formal Ontology (graduate seminar), Fall 2002
  • The Meaning of Life (undergraduate honors seminar), Spring 2003
  • Husserl (graduate seminar), Spring 2003
  • Topics in Ontology (graduate seminar), Spring 2003
  • Types and Tokens (graduate seminar with Boris Hennig and Fabian Neuhaus), Fall 2005
  • Ontology, Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (public lecture series), Fall 2006
  • An Introduction to Biomedical Ontology (tutorial), Spring 2008
  • CAS 101: Trends in Arts and Sciences (Philosophy), Fall 2009, Fall 2011, Fall 2015
  • Basic Formal Ontology (tutorial), Fall 2009
  • From Aristotle to the Universal Core (tutorial), Fall 2009
  • Philosophical Aspects of Health and Disease, Fall 2010 (with Mathias Brochhausen)
  • Four Seminars on Biomedical Informatics, Spring 2012
  • Basic Formal Ontology 2.0 (tutorial), Summer 2012
  • ProtĂ©gĂ© 2000 (tutorial), Summer 2012 (with Ron Rudnicki)
  • Problems in Ontology (graduate seminar), Fall 2012

International Academy for Philosophy in Liechtenstein (1987-1993)​

  • Truth, Correspondence and Ontology, Block-Seminar, May-June 1987
  • Bewusstsein, Bedeutung und Metaphysik, Block-Seminar, September 1987
  • History of Phenomenology, Block-Seminar, June-July 1988, WS 1991/92
  • Introduction to Formal Logic, Block-Seminar, October-November 1988
  • Sprachphilosophie, Seminar, WS 1989/90
  • On Commentaries: From Averroes to the BĂĽrgerliches Gesetzbuch, Seminar, WS 1989/90
  • Formal Logic, Lecture with Seminar, WS 1989/90
  • Pascal, Graduate Seminar, WS 1989/90
  • Introduction to Philosophy, Lecture with Seminar, SS 1990, WS 1991/92
  • Philosophie und Literatur, Lecture, SS 1990
  • Aristotle's Poetics, Graduate Seminar, SS 1990
  • Die Ă–sterreichische Schule der Nationalökonomie, Seminar, WS 1990/91
  • Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Lecture with Seminar, WS 1990/91
  • Methods of Research in Philosophy, Seminar, WS 1990/91
  • Natural Law, Human Rights and Legal Positivism, Graduate Seminar, WS 1990/91
  • Introduction to Formal Logic and Set Theory, Lecture with Seminar, SS 1991
  • Analytic Metaphysics, Seminar, SS 1991
  • Europäische Philosophie der Gegenwart, Lecture, SS 1991
  • Die Philosophie Franz Brentanos, Seminar, WS 1991/92
  • Philosophy of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences, Lecture, SS 1992
  • Formal Ontology, Research Seminar, SS 1992
  • EinfĂĽhrung in die Phänomenologie, Lecture, WS 1992/93
  • Philosophy of Music, Seminar (jointly with R. Casati), WS 1992/93
  • Apriorism, Research Seminar, WS 1992/93
  • History and Philosophy of Logic, Seminar (jointly with G. White), SS 1993
  • Truth, Research Seminar, SS 1993
  • Philosophie und die Kognitionswissenschaften, Lecture (jointly with R. Casati), SS 1993

University of Manchester (1979-1989)​

  • Introduction to Philosophy/History of Philosophy, 1979-83, 1985-87, 1988-89
  • Philosophical Logic, 1985-87
  • Elements of Phenomenology and Existentialism, 1979-80
  • Contemporary European Thought, 1980-83, 1985-87
  • History of Modern Philosophy: Rationalism and Empiricism, 1985-87, 1988-89
  • Husserl, 1979-83, 1985-86
  • Phenomenology, 1979-83
  • Wittgenstein's Tractatus, 1981-82
  • Cognition and Intentionality: An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, 1986-87
  • Philosophy of Science, 1988-89
  • Advanced Philosophy of Science, 1988-89
  • Metaphysics, 1988-89

University of Graz (1987-1988)​

  • Formale Ontologie, Vorlesung, WS 1987
  • Grundlagenprobleme der Ă„sthetik, Privatissimum, WS 1987
  • Phänomenologie, Vorlesung mit Konversatorium, WS 1987
  • Topologie fĂĽr Philosophen, Privatissimum, SS 1988
  • Metaphysik: Eine EinfĂĽhrung in die Philosophie, Proseminar, SS 1988
  • Was ist Wahrheit? Vorlesung, SS 1988 (jointly with R. Haller)

University of Erlangen (1984-1985)​

  • Franz Brentano und die deskriptive Psychologie, Proseminar, SS 1984
  • EinfĂĽhrung in die analytische Philosophie, Proseminar, WS 1984-85
  • Die Philosophie Ludwig Wittgensteins, Proseminar, SS 1985

University of Sheffield (1977-1979)​

  • Introductory Logic, 1977-79

Additional Teaching and Tutorials​

Summer Schools and International Programs​

  • International Summer School for Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Bolzano, Italy:
    • Cognition and Intentionality, July 1988
    • Formal Ontology, July 1991
    • Cognitive Metaphysics, October 1994
  • International Spatial Cognition Summer Institute, Bad Zwischenahn, Germany:
    • Ontology, Space and Language (with John Bateman), August-September 2003

Visiting Professorships and Lectures​

  • University of California at Irvine: Metaphysics, Winter Quarter 1990
  • University of Turku, Finland: The Physics of the Common-Sense World, September 1990
  • Catholic University of Lublin:
    • Truth and Truthmakers, March-April 2000
    • Applied Ontology, May 2002, May 2018
  • Universität Koblenz-Landau, Summer Semester 2000:
    • Werkzeuge des systematischen Denkens
    • Von Platon bis Nozick (with Ruth Hagengruber)
    • Probleme der angewandten Ethik (with Rudolf LĂĽthe)
  • Universidad AutĂłnoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico: Categorization, June 2001
  • Copenhagen Business School: Language and Ontology, May 2003
  • Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala: The Meaning of Social Life, July 2003
  • Universität des Saarlandes:
    • Problems in Ontology (with Pierre Grenon and Ingvar Johansson), Fall 2004
    • Spezies (with Ulrich Nortmann and Mathias Brochhausen), Summer 2006
    • Sprachtechnologie, Ontologien und Rechtswissenschaft, Summer 2006
    • Die Grundkategorien der Ontologie, Summer 2014

Streaming Video Courses​

Tutorials

For a complete list of teaching activities between 1977 and 2022, see here