Antony Galton (University of Exeter, UK)

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Below further suggested readings and session detail.

 

Suggested Readings

Part 1: Continuants and Occurrents

• Johanna Seibt.
  Process Philosophy.
  In E. Zalta (editor), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Spring 2016 edition.
• J. G. Stell and M. West. A four-dimensionalist mereotopology. In A. C. Varzi and L. Vieu (editors), Formal Ontology in Information Systems (Proceedings of FOIS2004), pages 261-272. IOS Press, 2004.
• Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith. SNAP and SPAN: Towards dynamic spatial ontology. Spatial Cognition and Computation, Volume 4, number 1, 2004, pages 69-104.

Part II: Processes and Events

• Marc Moens and Mark Steedman, Temporal Ontology and Temporal Reference, Computational Linguistics, Volume 15, pages 15-28, 1988. (Reprinted in I. Mani et al., The Language of Time: A Reader, Oxford University Press, 2005.)
• Antony Galton. Experience and History: Processes and their Relation to Events. Journal of Logic and Computation, Volume 18, number 3, 2008, pages 323-340.
  doi: 10.1093/logcom/exm079

Part III: Processes and Events in BFO and DOLCE

• Barry Smith (et al), Basic Formal Ontology 2.0: Specification and User’s Guide, 2015.
• Robert Arp, Barry Smith, and Andrew D. Spear. Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology. MIT Press, 2015.
• C. Masolo, S. Borgo, A. Gangemi, N. Guarino, and
  A. Oltramari. WonderWeb deliverable D18. Technical report,
  Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNS, Trento, Italy, 2003.
• Zeno Vendler. Verbs and Times. In Linguistics and Philosophy, chapter 4. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1967. (Reprinted in I. Mani et al., The Language of Time: A Reader, Oxford University Press, 2005.)

Part IV: Some Alternative Approaches

• Antony Galton and Riichiro Mizoguchi, The Water Falls but the Waterfall does not Fall, Applied Ontology, Volume 4, number 2, pages 71-107, 2009.
• Antony Galton, Outline of a Formal Theory of Processes and Events,
  and Why GIScience Needs One. In S. I. Fabrikant et al. (editors), Spatial Information Theory: Proceedings of COSIT 2015, Springer, 2015, pages 3-22.
• Antony Galton, The Ontology of States, Processes, and Events. In M. Okada and B. Smith (editors), Interdisciplinary Ontology. Proceedings of Interontology 2012, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

Part V: Modelling Causation

• Donald Davidson, Causal Relations, Journal of Philosophy, Volume 64, pages 691-703, 1967.
• Antony Galton and Michael Worboys, Processes and Events in Dynamic Geo-Networks. In M. Andrea Rodríguez et al., GeoSpatial Semantics: Proceedings of First International Conference, GeoS 2005.
  Springer, 2005, pages 45-59.
• Antony Galton, States, Processes and Events, and the Ontology of Causal Relations. In M. Donnelly and G. Guizzardi, Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of FOIS 2012, IOS Press, 2012, pp. 279-292.