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Publications by Barry Smith (bibliography)

1995

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Smith, Barry (1995): Formal Ontology, Common Sense and Cognitive Science. In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 43 (5) pp. 641-667.

“Common sense is on the one hand a certain set of processes of natural cognition -- of speaking, reasoning, seeing, and so on. On the other hand common sense is a system of beliefs (of folk physics and folk psychology). Over against both of these is the world of common sense, the world of objects to which the processes of natural cognition and the corresponding belief-contents standardly relate. What are the structures of this world and how does its scientific treatment relate to traditional and contemporary metaphysics and formal ontology? Can we embrace a thesis of common-sense realism to the effect that the world of common sense exists uniquely? Or must we adopt instead a position of cultural relativism which would assign distinct worlds of common sense to each group and epoch? The present paper draws on recent work in the fields of naive and qualitative physics, in perceptual and developmental psychology, and in cognitive anthropology, in order to consider in a new light these and related questions and to draw conclusions for the methodology and philosophical foundations of the cognitive sciences.”

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Nayar, Narinder, Badler, Norman, Carrier, Robert, Chaffin, Don, Liu, Yili, Duncan, Jerry, Nelson, Cynthia, Obergefell, Louise, Smith, Barry and Roebuck, John A. (1995): State of the Art and Current Activities in Human Modelling Technology. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting 1995. pp. 516-518.

“Computer-based human modelling technology has been in existence since the early 1980s. However, most earlier human models were either hard to use or lacked appealing graphics. With rapid developments in 3D computer graphics, it is now possible to interactively manipulate and analyze human models in a virtual environment. This coupled with growing user interest has spurred rapid development and use of human modelling and simulation.”

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