# Barry Smith (filósofo)

Barry Smith (4 de junio de 1952) es un filósofo estadounidense. Tiene el título de Julian Park Distinguished Professor de Filosofía en la Universidad de Buffalo y es investigador en el Research Scientist del estado de Nueva York. De 2002 a 2006 fue director del Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science en Leipzig y Saarbrücken, Alemania.
Sus investigaciones se centran en la ontología y en sus aplicaciones, en especial en biomedicina e informática biomédica, disciplinas en las que ha trabajado en una variedad de proyectos relacionados con la terminología biomédica y el archivado electrónico de los datos de los pacientes.
Es autor de unas 450 publicaciones científicas, incluyendo 15 libros, y es editor de The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry. En 2002 recibió, en reconocimiento de sus logros científicos, el premio Wolfgang Paul de la Fundación Alexander von Humboldt. Es, además, coordinador de The Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies.
A su vez, Barry Smith es profesor invitado en la Universidad de la Suiza Italiana desde el año 2019.

## Bibliografía

Libros
* Structure and Gestalt: Philosophy and Literature in Austria-Hungary and Her Successor States (ed.) (1981)
* Parts and Moments. Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology (ed.) (1982).
* B. Smith (ed.), Foundations of Gestalt Theory. München-Wien: Philosophia Verlag, 1988.
* Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano. Chicago-LaSalle: Open Court, 1994.
* Adolf Reinach, Sämtliche Werke. Kritische Ausgabe mit Kommentar, Band I: Die Werke, Teil I: Kritische Neuausgabe (1905–1914), Teil II: Nachgelassene Texte (1906–1917); Band II: Kommentar und Textkritik (ed. with Karl Schuhmann) (1989).
* Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, 2 vol. (ed. with Hans Burkhardt) (1991).
* Austrian Philosophy: The Legacy of Franz Brentano, Chicago-LaSalle, Open Court, 1994.
* The Cambridge Companion to Husserl (ed. with David W. Smith) (1995).
* Rationality and Irrationality (ed. with Berit Brogaard) (2001).
* John Searle (ed.) (2003).
* Applied Ontology: An Introduction (ed. with K. Munn) (2008)
Artículos
* Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “Foundations of an Ontology of Philosophy (enlace roto disponible en Internet Archive; véase el historial, la primera versión y la última).”, Synthese (2011), DOI 10.1007/s11229-009-9658-x
* Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters, “Ontological Realism as a Methodology for Coordinated Evolution of Scientific Ontologies (enlace roto disponible en Internet Archive; véase el historial, la primera versión y la última).”, Applied Ontology, 5, 2010, 139–188.
* Barry Smith, “ Austrian Economics and Austrian Philosophy”, in W. Grassl and B. Smith (eds.), Austrian Economics: Historical and Philosophical Background, London: Routledge, 2010, 1–36.
* Barry Smith, Michael Ashburner, Cornelius Rosse, et al., “The OBO Foundry: Coordinated Evolution of Ontologies to Support Biomedical Data Integration”, Nature Biotechnology, 25 (11), November 2007, 1251 -1255.
* Barry Smith, Werner Ceusters, Bert Klagges, et al., “Relations in Biomedical Ontologies Archivado el 15 de mayo de 2011 en Wayback Machine.”, Genome Biology, 2005, 6 (5), R46.
* Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology”, Spatial Cognition and Computation, 4 (1), 2004, 69–103.
* Barry Smith and Cornelius Rosse, “The Role of Foundational Relations in the Alignment of Biomedical Ontologies”, in M. Fieschi, et al. (eds.), Medinfo 2004, Ámsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 444–448.
* Barry Smith, "Beyond Concepts, or: Ontology as Reality Representation”, Achille Varzi and Laure Vieu (eds.), Formal Ontology and Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS 2004), Ámsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, 73–84.
* Barry Smith, “Ontology”, in Luciano Floridi (ed.), Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 155–166.
* Barry Smith, Jennifer Williams and Steffen Schulze-Kremer, 2003, “The Ontology of the Gene Ontology”, Proceedings of the Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2003, 609–613.
* Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “Do Mountains Exist? Towards an Ontology of Landforms”, Environment and Planning B (Planning and Design), 30 (3), 2003 , 411–427.
* Barry Smith, “Fiat Objects”, Topoi, 20: 2 (September 2001), 131–148.
* Barry Smith and David M. Mark, “Geographical Categories: An Ontological Investigation”, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15 (7), 2001, 591–612.
* Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 60 (2), 2000, 401–420.
* Barry Smith and Achille Varzi, “http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/niches.pdf The Niche]”, Nous, 33 (2), 1999, 198–222.
* Barry Smith, “Mereotopology: A Theory of Parts and Boundaries”, Data and Knowledge Engineering, 20, 1996, 287–303.
* Barry Smith, “On Drawing Lines on a Map”, in Andrew U. Frank and Werner Kuhn (eds.), Spatial Information Theory. A Theoretical Basis for GIS (LNCS 988), Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, etc.: Springer, 1995, 475–484.
* Kevin Mulligan, Peter M. Simons and Barry Smith, “Truth-Makers”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 44 (1984), 287–321.