Theory and History of Ontology
by Raul Corazzon - e-mail: raul.corazzon[at]formalontology.it
For an overview see the Index of the Pages, the SITE MAP or the Alphabetical Index of the Philosophers: A-F - G-O - P-Z; You can also download this page as 
Table of Contemporary Ontologists 
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FIRST SECTION: THEORY OF ONTOLOGY
Definitions of Ontology by Leading Philosophers
What is Ontology? - First Part (From Christian Wolff to Edmund Husserl)
What is Ontology? - Second Part (From Nicolai Hartmann to the present time)
The Vocabulary of Ontology
Introductory remarks (origin and development of some fundamental concepts with a selection of the most relevant texts)
Actuality
Being (linguistic and philosophical perspectives)
Existence (definitions from some leading philosophers)
Power
Substance (the evolution of the concept from Ancient Greeks to Modern Times)
Selected Ontological Topics
Language and Ontology
Linguistic Relativism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) vs. Universal Grammar
Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium (two traditions in 20th century philosophy)
Universal Ontology vs. Ontological Relativity
Semiotics and Ontology
Modern Theories of Predication
Existence and Predication: the Frege-Russell 'Is' Ambiguity Thesis
The Problem of Universals
Pathways to Western Philosophy
General and Introductory Works (a selection of reference works on philosophy)
Formal and Descriptive Metaphysics (a brief guide to the introductory literature on metaphysics)
Formal and Descriptive Ontology (a brief guide to the introductory literature on ontology)
Philosophical Logic and the Philosophy of Logic (readings on some selected arguments)
Analytic Philosophy (introductory and historical works)
Phenomenology (introductory and historical works)
Pathways to Non-Western Philosophy
Pathways to Comparative Philosophy (a selection of reference works about non-Western ontology and logic)
African Philosophy. A Survey of Contemporary Studies (introductory works and studies about African conceptions of Being and Truth)
Logic and Language in Ancient China (a survey of contemporary studies)
Logic and Ontology in Ancient India (with particular reference the Nyaya-Vaisesika School)
Buddhist Logic and Ontology (Indian and Tibetan developments of Buddhism)
Islamic (Arabic and Persian) Logic and Ontology (the introduction of Greek philosophy in the Islamic world)
SECOND SECTION: HISTORY OF ONTOLOGY
Semantics and Predication Before Aristotle: Parmenides and Plato
Parmenides of Elea's Way of Truth
Plato's Parmenides and the Dilemma of Participation
Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist
Platonism Established: The “Genera of Being” in Plato' Sophist
Platonism Reversed: the Stoic Doctrine of “Something” as Supreme Genus
Plato' Cratylus and the problem of the “correctness of names”
Metaphysics or Ontology? The Debate about the Subject Matter of First Philosophy
Aristotle's Definition of a Science of Being qua Being
The Place of Metaphysics in the Ancient Divisions of Philosophy
The Peripatos after Aristotle's and the Origin of the Corpus Aristotelicum
Ancient Catalogues of Aristotle's Works:
The Oblivion of Being After Aristotle: Theophrastus' Metaphysics
The Arabic Rediscovery of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: the Theology of Aristotle
Al-Kindi's Metaphysics: First Philosophy as the Study of God
Al-Farabi on the Scopes of the Aristotelian Metaphysics
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) on Being qua Being as the Subject of Metaphysics
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) on the Divine as the Subject of Metaphysics
The 'Second Beginning' of Metaphysics
Introducing Aristotle in Middle Ages: the Latin Translations of the Metaphysics
A Neoplatonic Metaphysics: the Liber de Causis
The Place of Metaphysics in the Medieval Classification of Sciences
Thomas Aquinas Doctrine of the Act of Being (Actus Essendi)
Duns Scotus: Univocity of Being and the Subject of Metaphysics
Properties of Being: the Medieval Doctrine of the Transcendentals
The Rise and Fall of Ontology in the Modern Era from Suarez to Kant
Birth of a New Science: the History of Ontology from Suarez to Kant
A Selection of Ontologists from Fonseca to Crusius (1560-1770)
Francisco Suarez on Metaphysics as the Science of Real Beings
Christian Wolff's Ontology: Existence as "Complement of Possibility"
Kant from the Critique of Metaphysics to Transcendental Philosophy
The Rediscovery of Ontology in Contemporary Thought
Ontologists of the 19th and 20th Centuries (a selection of critical judgments about some of the greatest philosophers of the recent past)
Living Ontologists (a list of authors with an interest in ontology, with synthetic bibliographies)
Ontological Problems in the History of Logic
Ontology and History of Logic in Western Thought
General Works and Bibliographies on the History of Logic
Aristotle's Logic: General Survey and Introductory Readings
Aristotle's Earlier Dialectic: the Topics and Sophistical Refutations
Aristotle's Categories: see below History of the Theories of Categories
Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Semantics and Philosophy of Language
Aristotle's Prior Analytics: the Theory of Categorical Syllogism
Aristotle's Prior Analytics: the Theory of Modal Syllogism
Aristotle's Posterior Analytics: The Theory of Demonstration
Peripatetic Logic: Eudemus of Rhodes and Theophrastus of Eresus
The History of Ancient Logic in the Hellenistic Period
The Dialectical School, Stoic Logic and the Doctrine of Lekta (Sayables)
Stoic Logicians: Diodorus Cronus, Philo of Megara, Chrysippus
The Contribution of Boethius to the Development of Medieval Logic
History of Medieval Logic after Boethius to Late Scholasticism
Medieval Theories of Supposition (Reference) and Mental Language
The Development of Renaissance and Modern Logic from 1400 to Boole
Leibniz on Logic and Semiotics: the Project of a Universal Language
The Rise of Contemporary Symbolic Logic from Frege to Gödel
A Selection of Great Logicians from Aristotle to Gödel (1931)
History of the Theories of Categories
General Introduction: Ontological Categories
Theory of Predication and Ontological Analysis in Aristotle's Categories
The Stoic Theory of Categories and Plotinus' Criticism of Aristotle
Ancient Greek Commentators on Aristotle's Categories
John Scottus Eriugena Criticism of Categories: Periphyseon Book I
Theories of Truth in Western Philosophy
Pre-Philosophical Conceptions of Truth: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Alexandrine Poets, Thucydides
Aletheia in Greek Thought from Homer to Hellenistic Period
Veritas in Middle Ages from Augustine to Paul of Venice
Theories of Truth in Modern Era from Descartes to Kant
The Problem of Universals from the Antiquity to Middle Ages
Universals in Antiquity and Middle Ages
Abelard's Logic and the Origins of Nominalism
Other Pages on the History of Philosophy
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. A bibliography
History of the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
Entia Rationis. History of the Theories on Non-existent Objects
Annotated Bibliographies of Historians of Philosophy
THIRD SECTION: PAGES IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH
Pages en Français
Histoire de la Vérité dans la Philosophie Occidentale:
Listes Anciennes des Ouvrages d'Aristote: études en français
Pagine in Italiano
Last modified: Tuesday, March 09, 2010