I am a researcher with National Center for Ontological Research, and I was previously an Intelligence Community Postdoc, funded by the Department of Energy through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). My research site is the Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo.
My interests include applied ontology, referent tracking, object-based production, and semantic technology.
Contact: dglimbau@buffalo.edu
Education
Ph.D. Philosophy, University at Buffalo (2014-2018)
Dissertation: Modality, Representation, and Powers
Committee: Neil Williams, Barry Smith, and Maureen Donnelly
M.A. Philosophy, Biola University (2011-2014)
B.A. Philosophy, Auburn University (1999-2003)
Publications
“Capabilities,” Under Review (2022) (with Eric Merrell, Peter Koch, and Barry Smith)
“Conceptual Spaces for Space Event Characterization via Hard and Soft Data Fusion,” AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Scitech Forum (2021) (with Jeremy R. Chapman, David Kasmier, Stephen R. Gagnon, John Crassidis, James Llinas, Barry Smith, and Alexander P. Cox)
“Ontology: A Bridge between Bioethics and Data-Driven Inquiry,” American Journal of Bioethics 21:6, 51-53 (2021) (with Eric Merrell and Peter Koch)
“Peer Review Report: Ontologies relevant to behaviour change interventions,” Version 3, Human Behaviour Change Project (2021)
“Ontology and Cognitive Outcomes,” Journal of Knowledge Structures & Systems 1:1, 3-22 (2020) (with Jobst Landgrebe, David Kasmier, Ronald Rudnicki, James Llinas, and Barry Smith)
“Conceptual Space Modeling for Space Event Characterization,” IEEE 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION) (2020) (with Jeremy R. Chapman, David Kasmier, Stephen R. Gagnon, John Crassidis, James Llinas, Barry Smith, and Alexander P. Cox)
“Why We Shouldn’t Let the Cheerfully Demented Die,” American Journal of Bioethics 20:8, 96-98 (2020) (with Peter Koch and Eric Merrell)
“Warranted Diagnosis,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference for Biomedical Ontology (2019) (with David Kasmier, Werner Ceusters, and Barry Smith)
“Towards a Foundation for a Realist Ontology of Cognitive Processes,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference for Biomedical Ontology (2019) (with David Kasmier, and Barry Smith)
“Mental Capabilities,” Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference for Biomedical Ontology (2019) (with Eric Merrell and Barry Smith)
“The Harm of Medical Disorder as Harm in the Damage Sense,” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 40(1): 1-19 (2019)
“Libet and Freedom in a Mind-Haunted World,” American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 9(1): 42-44 (2018) (with Robert Kelly)