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The Fifth Cycle of Philosophy
The document outlines Barry Smith's lecture on Franz Brentano's four phases of Western philosophy, emphasizing its evolution through various cycles and the emergence of psychology as a discipline. It discusses the transition from philosophical skepticism to the birth of empirical sciences like psychology and ontology, highlighting notable figures and milestones in these fields. The text further explores the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and the development of ontological frameworks to facilitate communication across diverse domains.
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- 1. The Fifth Cycleof Philosophy Barry Smith
- 2. Brentano’s Four Phases Ina lecture, delivered in Vienna in 1894 and dedicated "to the academic youth of Austria- Hungary", Franz Brentano outlined four phases of advance and decline which he saw as providing the key to the understanding of the history of Western philosophy.
- 3. The Four Phasesof Philosophy rapid practical scepticism mysticism progress interest 3
- 4. First Cycle Thales toStoicism and Pyrrho, Neo-Pythagoreans, Aristotle Epicureanism Eclectics Neo-Platonists 4 Aristotle empirical wonderment
- 5. Second Cycle Rediscovery ofScotism Ockham, Lull, Aristotle by Augustine Nominalists Nicholas of and Early Scholastics Cusa 5 Aquinas learned ignorance
- 6. Third Cycle Bacon ChristianWolff Hume Berkeley, Fichte Descartes Reid Schelling, Hegel Leibniz, Locke Kant 6 grounding knowledge on blind prejudices
- 7. Philosophical mother shipgives birth to empirical physics Bacon Rising practical Descartes (scientific) interest Leibniz, Locke Galileo, Newton 7
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- 9. Fourth Cycle (Continental) BrentanoHusserl Heidegger Derrida and Rediscovery Reinach the French of Aristotle Ingarden 9
- 10. Philosophical mother shipgives birth to the new empirical science of psychology Brentano,Stumpf Meinong,Ehrenfels Wilhelm Wundt 1
- 11. 11 The Birth ofPsychology 1874: Brentano publishes Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint Vera philosophiae methodus nulla alia nisi scientiae naturalis est. 1879: Wundt establishes world’s first psychological laboratory at the University of Leipzig 1883: Wundt establishes a journal entitled Philosophische Studien, to publish the results of his laboratory experiments
- 12. 12 The Birth ofPsychology 1889: First International Congress of Psychology; Meinong founds Laboratory of Psychology in Graz 1892: American Psychological Association founded, with 42 members 1894: Stumpf becomes professor of philosophy in Berlin with explicit task of establishing an institute of psychology 1907: Twardowski founds first psychological laboratory in Poland
- 13. Fourth Cycle (Analytical) FregeViennaCircle Wittgenstein2o Rorty Wittgenstein1o Gödel Quine Feyerabend Russell Tarski Goodman 13
- 14. Philosophy gives birthto mathematical logic and computer science Frege Gödel Russell Tarski Whitehead Turing 14
- 15. Derrida Rorty Judith Butler 15 Each finalphase of decline, with its ultimate collapse into nonsense and jokes, gives rise to the call for a new phase of renewal.
- 16. You are nowhere 16 Derrida Rorty Butler
- 17. The Fifth Cycle Phasesof renewal are associated with a new focus on empiricism, on rigour and clarity, a new scientific relevance of philosophy, 17
- 18. Rise of analyticalmetaphysics Roderick Chisholm E.J.Lowe, David Armstrong Peter Simons Ingvar Johansson … 18
- 19. Something’s happening here… but you don’t know what it is, Mr Jones Russell, Husserl, Ingarden, Chisholm, E.J.Lowe, Armstrong Simons, Ingvar Johansson, Kit Fine Maurizio Ferraris??? Patrick Hayes, 19
- 20. 20 why were disciplinessuch as physics or psychology … founded? feelings of chaos, sectarianism, superficiality, deadendedness, triviality inside philosophy philosophy goes round and round in circles forever re- re-re-re-re-explaining Kant’s theory of apperception new methods for tackling philosophical problems also address extra-philosophical concerns empirical results increasing cross-disciplinary collaboration between philosophy and extra-philosophical disciplines
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- 22. Philosophical mother shipgives birth to the new science of ontology Husserl, Ingarden, Chisholm E.J.Lowe, David Armstrong Peter Simons, Ingvar Johansson Patrick Hayes, Cornelius Rosse 22
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- 24. 24 Google hits Jan.2004 ontology + Heidegger 58K ontology + Aristotle 77K ontology + philosophy 327K ontology + software 468K ontology + database 594K
- 25. 25 Comparison 2004/2012 ontology +Heidegger 58K 1.91M ontology + Aristotle 77K 1.66M ontology + philosophy 327K 4.91M ontology + software 468K 7.80M ontology + database 594K 10.20M
- 26. Ontology (philosophy) (Synonym of‘metaphysics’) The science of being. A theory of the types of entities existing in reality, and of the relations between them, for example between basic and non- basis entities. 26
- 27. Ontology (science) The sciencewhich develops theories of the types of entities existing in given domains of reality, and of the relations between them such theories are represented as computational artifacts called ‘ontologies’ which are used to describe heterogeneous data in consistent ways to support comparison and integration 27
- 28. World’s first ontologyscientist Cornelius Rosse (born in Hungary in 1932, studied Aristotle in the Jesuit seminar in Budapest, used his knowledge of Aristotle to create the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA), the first philosophically rigorous biological ontology Rosse draw on his knowledge of Aristotle to create the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA), the first philosophically rigorous biological ontology
- 29. Pleural Cavity Interlobar recess Mesothelium of Pleura Pleura(Wall of Sac) Visceral Pleura PleuralSac Parietal Pleura Anatomical Space Organ Cavity Serous Sac Cavity Anatomical Structure Organ Serous Sac Mediastinal Pleura Tissue Organ Part Organ Subdivision Organ Component Organ Cavity Subdivision Serous Sac Cavity Subdivision 120,000 terms (nodes); over 2.1 million relations (edges)
- 30. Anatomical Space Organ Cavity Serous Sac Cavity Anatomical Structure Organ SerousSac Organ Part Organ Subdivision Organ Component Organ Cavity Subdivision Serous Sac Cavity Subdivision Independent Continuant Entity
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- 34. 34 www.geneontology.org how a logicallyand philosophically well-structured ontology can contribute to integration across massively heterogeneous data sources
- 35. 35 Ontology (science) is nota job for software engineers but it is not a job for philosophers, either, e.g. where ontology is playing an increasing role in supporting interdisciplinary communication between human beings – for example in improving communication between Federal government departments
- 36. 36 Typical reasons forfounding a new discipline feelings of chaos, deadendedness, triviality inside the mother discipline new methods for tackling problems of the mother discipline new kinds of empirical methods and results increasing need for cross-disciplinary collaboration – e.g. marked by multi- authorship
- 37. 37 What is neededto found a new discipline Funding Journals Conferences Institutes Societies Industrial applications Military applications
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- 39. Examples of Ontology(Science) Projects funded by US National Institutes of Health NIH / NHGRI GO: Gene Ontology NIH / NIGMS PRO: Protein Ontology NIH / NIAID IDO: Infectious Disease Ontology NIH / NIDCR Ontology for Mental Disease NIH / NHGRI SO: Sequence Ontology NIH / NLM FMA: Foundational Model of Anatomy NIH / NHGRI CL: Cell Ontology by now at least $500 million funding from NIH 39
- 40. Journals • Applied Ontology •Journal of Biomedical Semantics • International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies • Ontology Development and Applications • Journal of Social Ontology 40
- 41. Conferences Formal Ontology inInformation Systems Bio-Ontologies Ontology for the Intelligence Community (now: Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defence and Security) International Conference on Biomedical Ontology Annual NIST Ontology Summit 41
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- 45. Research Institutes (Examples) Laboratoryfor Applied Ontology (Trento and Rome) LabOnt (Turin and Rome) Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (Saarbrücken) Centre for Knowledge Analytics and Ontological Engineering (Bangalore) National Center for Biomedical Ontology (Stanford Medical School, Mayo Clinic, Buffalo Department of Philosophy) 45
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- 49. Ontology Societies International Associationfor Ontology and Its Applications (iaoa.org) International Society for Biocuration (biocurator.org) UK Ontology Network (ukontology.org) 49
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- 54. US DoD CivilAffairs strategy for non-classified information sharing 54
- 55. located near Latrine Well ‘VT 334 569’ Distance Measurement Result Village Name ‘Khanabad Village’ Village is_a instance_of Geopolitical Entity Spatial Region Geographic Coordinates Set designates instance_of located in instance_of has location designates has location instance_of instance_ of ’16meters’ instance_of measurement_of 55 Military Applications
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