Barry Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Advanced Study |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8345-7633 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 57 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 149 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why police robots will not become human-like: Social interaction, machine ethics, and limits of AI
Recent advances in robotics and machine learning have revived the idea of police robots – machines that could patrol public spaces, conduct traffic stops, and interact with citizens with near-human competence. Proponents emphasize potential gains in officer safety, operational efficiency, and consistent rule enforcement, and international policy discussions increasingly treat AI and robotics for law enforcement as an emerging reality rather than …
From Molecules to Perception: Philosophical Investigations of Smell
Theories of perception have traditionally dismissed the sense of smell as a notoriously variable and highly subjective sense, mainly because it does not easily fit into accounts of perception based on visual experience. So far, philosophical questions about the objects of olfactory perception have started by considering the nature of olfactory experience. However, there is no philosophically neutral or agreed conception of olfactory experience: i…
Making AI meaningful again
On Credentials
Credentials play an important role in all modern societies, but the analysis of their nature and function has thus far been neglected by social philosophers. We present a view according to which the defining function of credentials is to certify the identity and the institutional status (including certain rights) of individuals. More importantly, credentials enable rights-holders to exercise their rights, so that for a particular right to be exer…
Granville Bantock's Letters to William Wallace and Ernest Newman, 1893-1921: Our new dawn of modern music' ed by Michael Allis
Reviewed by: Granville Bantock's Letters to William Wallace and Ernest Newman, 1893–1921: 'Our new dawn of modern music' ed by Michael Allis Barry Smith, Sandi-Jo Malmon, and Colin Coleman Granville Bantock's Letters to William Wallace and Ernest Newman, 1893–1921 'Our new dawn of modern music'. Edited by Michael Allis. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2017. [x, 298 p. ISBN: 978-1-78327-233-4 £75] Recent years have seen an interesting tren…
(C)Elsi-us: Reducing Friction with Indigenous Communities in Genomic Research
As government policy settings have become more \nresponsive to aspirations of Indigenous communities and \nresearchers are more sensitive to the concerns of Indigenous communities, the research environment has become more conducive to understanding the cultural implications of genomic research. CELSI-us is a tongue-in-cheek reference to taking the temperature of the relationship between genomic researchers and Indigenous communities. If we create…
Te Mata Ira—Faces of the Gene: Developing a cultural foundation for biobanking and genomic research involving Māori
Te Mata Ira was a three-year research project (2012–2015) that explored Māori views on genomic research and biobanking for the development of culturally appropriate guidelines. A key component of this process has been to identify Māori concepts that provide cultural reference points for engaging with biobanking and genomic research. These cultural cues provide the basis for describing the cultural logic that underpins engagement in this context i…
Engaging Maori in Biobanking and Genetic Research: Legal, Ethical, and Policy Challenges
Publically funded biobanking initiatives and genetic research should contribute towards reducing inequalities in health by reducing the prevalence and burden of disease. It is essential that Maori and other Indigenous populations share in health gains derived from these activities. The Health Research Council of New Zealand has funded a research project (2012-2015) to identify Maori perspectives on biobanking and genetic research, and to develop …
John Searle
Foundations of an ontology of philosophy
Views and Experiences of Family/ whanau Carers of Psychiatric Service Users on Diagnosis and Classification
Background: Family ( whanau) and other carers can play a central part in the natural history of psychiatric service users. Diagnoses or the classification of mental disorders play a significant role in communications between clinicians, psychiatric service users, and family. Despite that centrality, the views and experiences of family on the utility of the present classification systems have been little studied. Aims: This study aimed to document…
Vantagens e limitações das ontologias formais na área biomédica
Centro Médico Universitário Freiburg. Instituto de Biometria Médica e Informática da Medicina. Freiburg, Alemanha
Strengths and limitations of formal ontologies in the biomedical domain
We propose a typology of representational artifacts for health care and life sciences domains and associate this typology with different kinds of formal ontology and logic, drawing conclusions as to the strengths and limitations for ontology of different kinds of logical resources, with a focus on description logics.The four types of domain representation we consider are: (i) lexico-semantic representation, (ii) representation of types of entitie…
Dealing with Socially Constructed Concepts in an Ontology
Toward a Realistic Science of Environments
If mind is a creature of adaptation, then our standard representationalist theories of mind are in need of revision. For such theories are inspired by Cartesian ways of thinking. They thus conceive the subject of mental experience in isolation from any surrounding physico-biological environment and do not grapple with the interconnections between the world of human thought, feeling and action and the environment of human behavior as this is descr…
Philosophical Investigations on Time, Space and the Continuum (Routledge Revivals)
The Varieties of Normativity: An Essay on Social Ontology
Post Factum
Jennicam , or the telematic theatre of a real life
Academics have focused on the webcam as a technology that above all provides a digital window into another ‘real’ time and space, thereby conjoining the actual and the virtual. This article chronicles the history of Jennicam, a webcam in the home of an ‘ordinary’ young Western woman Jennifer Ringley, portraying her daily life through a series of images intermittently transmitted over the Internet for nearly eight years. Jennicam was a slowly unra…
An Illuminating Exchange The Construction of Social Reality: An Exchange
In his The Construction of Social Reality, Searle presents an account of rights, responsibilities, obligations, duties, and similar entities in terms of the formula X counts as Y in context C, where "X" refers in the simplest case to some physical object or event and "Y" to the result of imposing upon X some deontic power or function. Smith attempts to show the limitations of this formula, focusing especially on the examples of contested property…
The measure of civilizations
Is it possible to compare civilizations one with another? Is it possible, in other words, to construct some neutral and objective framework in terms of which we could establish in what respects one civilization might deserve to be ranked more highly than its competitors? Morality will surely provide one axis of such a framework (and we note in passing that believers in Islam might quite reasonably claim that their fellow-believers are characteris…
Kafka et Brentano
Un mince fil dans la vaste littérature sur Kafka concerne la connaissance qu'avait Kafka de la philosophie, et plus précisément l'utilisation, dans les récits de Kafka, de quelques-unes des idées principales de Franz Brentano. Kafka a suivi des cours de philosophie à l'Université Charles, cours donnés par des étudiants de Brentano, Anton Marty et Christian von Ehrenfels. Il fut aussi, pendant plusieurs années, membre d'un groupe de discussion org…
Warlock, Peter
Rationality in Action: A Symposium
John Searle's forthcoming book 'Rationality in Action' presents a sophisticated and innovative account of the rationality of action. In the book Searle argues against what he calls the classical model of rationality. In the debate that follows Barry Smith challenges some implications of Searle's account. In particular, Smith suggests that Searle's distinction between observer-relative and observer–independent facts of the world is ill suited to a…
L’enquête ontologique: Du mode d’existence des objets sociaux
Les sociologues n'ont jamais cessé d'exprimer leur intérêt pour le problème dit de « la nature de la réalité sociale ». Pour nombre d'entre eux, le projet de clarifier ce problème n'est rien de moins que le programme complet de leur discipline. Mais la controverse autour de la nature de la réalité sociale est très loin d'être réglée. Des conceptions diamétralement opposées s'y affrontent, les unes « réalistes », les autres « anti-réalistes ». Ce …
Truth-Makers
Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries
There is a basic distinction, in the realm of spatial boundaries, between bona fide boundaries on the one hand, and fiat boundaries on the other. The former are just the physical boundaries of old. The latter are exemplified especially by boundaries induced through human demarcation, for example in the geographic domain. The classical problems connected with the notions of adjacency, contact, separation and division can be resolved in an intuitiv…
An Illuminating Exchange The Construction of Social Reality: An Exchange
In his The Construction of Social Reality, Searle presents an account of rights, responsibilities, obligations, duties, and similar entities in terms of the formula X counts as Y in context C, where "X" refers in the simplest case to some physical object or event and "Y" to the result of imposing upon X some deontic power or function. Smith attempts to show the limitations of this formula, focusing especially on the examples of contested property…
Rationality in Action: A Symposium
John Searle's forthcoming book 'Rationality in Action' presents a sophisticated and innovative account of the rationality of action. In the book Searle argues against what he calls the classical model of rationality. In the debate that follows Barry Smith challenges some implications of Searle's account. In particular, Smith suggests that Searle's distinction between observer-relative and observer–independent facts of the world is ill suited to a…
Ontology With Human subjects Testing: An Emprical investigation of Geographic Categories
The paper presents a framework for the formulation and testing of ontological theories embodied in human cognition, concentrating primarily on the domain of geographic categories. Evidence for and against alternative theories of cognitive categories, for example on the part of E. Rosch and her associates, has been hitherto hased primarily on studies of categorization of entities of table-top space (pets, tools, fruits). We hypothesize that the st…
Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology
Journal Article Book Notes Get access Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology. Edited By Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith. (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1991. 2 vols. Pp. xxiii + 1005. Price £210.) J. H J. H Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Page 120, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219954 Published: 01 January 1993
Parts and Moments: Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology
Franz Brentano on the Ontology of Mind
Gullible's Travails: Tuberculosis and Quackery 1890-1930
Ingarden vs. Meinong on the Logic of Fiction
From Molecules to Perception: Philosophical Investigations of Smell
Theories of perception have traditionally dismissed the sense of smell as a notoriously variable and highly subjective sense, mainly because it does not easily fit into accounts of perception based on visual experience. So far, philosophical questions about the objects of olfactory perception have started by considering the nature of olfactory experience. However, there is no philosophically neutral or agreed conception of olfactory experience: i…
Making AI meaningful again
(C)Elsi-us: Reducing Friction with Indigenous Communities in Genomic Research
As government policy settings have become more \nresponsive to aspirations of Indigenous communities and \nresearchers are more sensitive to the concerns of Indigenous communities, the research environment has become more conducive to understanding the cultural implications of genomic research. CELSI-us is a tongue-in-cheek reference to taking the temperature of the relationship between genomic researchers and Indigenous communities. If we create…
On the Austrianness of Austrian economics
Much recent work on the intellectual background of Austrian economics reveals an unfortunate lack of awareness of the distinct nature of the Austrian contribution to philosophy, from which the Austrian economists drew many of their ideas. The present essay offers a sketch of this contribution, contrasting Austrian philosophy especially with the modes of philosophy dominant in Germany. This makes it possible to throw new light on the relations on …
Questions: An Essay in Daubertian Phenomenology
Introduction What is a Question?A number of logicians and philosophers have turned their attention in recent years to the problem of developing a logic of interrogatives.Their work has thrown a great deal of light on the formal properties of questions and question-sentences and has led also to interesting innovations in our understanding of the structures of performatives in general and, for example, in the theory of presuppositions.When, however…
Frege and Husserl: The Ontology of Reference
Analytic philosophers apply the term ‘object’ both to concreta and to abstracta of certain kinds. The theory of objects which this implies is shown to rest on a dichotomy between object-entities on the one hand and meaning-entities on the other, and it is suggested that the most adequate account of the latter is provided by Husserl’s theory of noemata. A two-story ontology of objects and meanings (concepts, classes) is defended, and Löwenheim’s w…
The Ontogenesis of Mathematical Objects
On Credentials
Credentials play an important role in all modern societies, but the analysis of their nature and function has thus far been neglected by social philosophers. We present a view according to which the defining function of credentials is to certify the identity and the institutional status (including certain rights) of individuals. More importantly, credentials enable rights-holders to exercise their rights, so that for a particular right to be exer…
Foundations of an ontology of philosophy
Wanted
Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time and the Continuum
Franz Brentano is one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work has considerable historic importance through its influence on Husserl's views on internal time consciousness
Self-Awareness: A Semantical Inquiry
The Ontogenesis of Mathematical Objects
Frege and Husserl: The Ontology of Reference
Analytic philosophers apply the term ‘object’ both to concreta and to abstracta of certain kinds. The theory of objects which this implies is shown to rest on a dichotomy between object-entities on the one hand and meaning-entities on the other, and it is suggested that the most adequate account of the latter is provided by Husserl’s theory of noemata. A two-story ontology of objects and meanings (concepts, classes) is defended, and Löwenheim’s w…
On Objects of Higher Order and Husserl's Phenomenology
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access On Objects of Higher Order and Husserl’s Phenomenology. By Alexius Meinong. Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Marie-Luise Schubert. (The Hague: Nijhoff. 1979. Pp. vi + 252.) Barry Smith Barry Smith Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 120, July 1980, Pages 252–254, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219251 Published: 01 Ju…
Ingarden vs. Meinong on the Logic of Fiction
Parts and Moments: Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology
Introduction to Adolf Reinach: On the Theory of the Negative Judgment
Ten Conditions on a Theory of Speech Acts
It is now generally recognized that figures such as Reid, Peirce, and Reinach formulated theories of speech acts avant la lettre of Austin and Searle, in Reid and Reinach’s cases under the heading ‘theory of social acts’. Here we address the question as to what conditions would have to be satisfied for such theories to count as ‘theories of speech acts’ in the now familiar sense
Truth-Makers
Parts and Moments: Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology
Franz Brentano on the Ontology of Mind
Self-Awareness: A Semantical Inquiry
Gullible's Travails: Tuberculosis and Quackery 1890-1930
Questions: An Essay in Daubertian Phenomenology
Introduction What is a Question?A number of logicians and philosophers have turned their attention in recent years to the problem of developing a logic of interrogatives.Their work has thrown a great deal of light on the formal properties of questions and question-sentences and has led also to interesting innovations in our understanding of the structures of performatives in general and, for example, in the theory of presuppositions.When, however…
On the Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Analytic philosophers have until recently been reluctant to pursue historical investigations into the Central European roots of their own philosophical tradition. The most recent book by Michael Dummett, however, entitled Origins of Analytic Philosophy, shows how fruitful such investigations can be, not only as a means of coming to see familiar philosophical problems in a new light, but also as a means of clarifying what, precisely, ‘analytic phi…
Kasimir Twardowski: An Essay on the Borderlines of Ontology, Psychology and Logic
On the Austrianness of Austrian economics
Much recent work on the intellectual background of Austrian economics reveals an unfortunate lack of awareness of the distinct nature of the Austrian contribution to philosophy, from which the Austrian economists drew many of their ideas. The present essay offers a sketch of this contribution, contrasting Austrian philosophy especially with the modes of philosophy dominant in Germany. This makes it possible to throw new light on the relations on …
Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology
Plantinga on Essentialism, Sklar on Space-Time, Stroll on Surfaces and Walton on Fiction are all examples.This two-volume work is clearly printed and well constructed, being likely to withstand the wear a reference text can be expected to suffer.It is a delight to dip into; the phrase 'hard to put down' is certainly apt.At £210, however, it is not likely to appeal to individual buyers and, notwithstanding its merits, I cannot say that the conside…
Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time and the Continuum
Franz Brentano is one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work has considerable historic importance through its influence on Husserl's views on internal time consciousness
Peter Warlock
Grundlagen einer Theorie der Wahrheit
Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology
Journal Article Book Notes Get access Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology. Edited By Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith. (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1991. 2 vols. Pp. xxiii + 1005. Price £210.) J. H J. H Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 170, January 1993, Page 120, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219954 Published: 01 January 1993
Aristotelianism, apriorism, essentialism
L'Autriche et la naissance de la philosophie scientifique
Smith Barry. L'Autriche et la naissance de la philosophie scientifique. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 109, octobre 1995. Anatomie du goût philosophique. pp. 61-71
Wanted
The Utopian Mind and Other Papers: A Critical Study in Moral and Political Philosophy , by Aurel Kolnai. Edited by Francis Dunlop
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