Barry Smith | |
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| Born | 4 June 1952 Bury, England |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | University of Oxford University of Manchester (PhD, 1976) |
| Known for | Truthmaker theory European Society for Analytic Philosophy IFOMIS OBO Foundry Basic Formal Ontology |
| Awards | Wolfgang Paul Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Ontology Philosophy Biomedical Informatics |
| Institutions | University of Manchester University of Sheffield International Academy of Philosophy, Liechtenstein University at Buffalo |
| Thesis | The Ontology of Reference: Studies in Logic and Phenomenology (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wolfe Mays |
| Doctoral students | Berit Brogaard David Koepsell |
| Other notable students | Amie Thomasson |
| Website | ontology |
Barry Smith (born 4 June 1952) is an academic working in the field of Applied Ontology. Smith is the author of more than 700 scientific publications, including 15 authored or edited books. He is one of the most widely cited living philosophers.[1]
- ^ The order among living philosophers at scholar.google.com is: Kimlycka, Clark, Chalmers, Smith.