Theory and History of Ontology
by Raul Corazzon - e-mail: raul.corazzon[at]formalontology.it
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FIRST SECTION: THEORY OF ONTOLOGY
Definitions of Ontology
What is Ontology? (From Christian Wolff to Edmund Husserl)
What is Ontology? (From Nicolai Hartmann to Present Times)
Vocabulary of Ontology
Actuality
Power
Selected Ontological Topics:
Language and Ontology
Linguistic Relativism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) vs. Universal Grammar
Medieval Theories of Supposition (Reference) and Mental Language
Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium
Semiotics and Ontology
John Deely - An annotated bibliography
John Deely and the rediscovery of John Poinsot
Modern Theories of Predication
Existence and Predication: the Frege-Russell-Frege 'Is' Ambiguity Thesis
The Problem of Universals in the Contemporary Debate
Pathways to Western Philosophy
Pathways to analytic philosophy
Pathways to philosophical logic and the philosophy of logic
Introductions to non-Western Philosophy
Pathways to Comparative and non-Western Philosophy
African Philosophy. A survey of Contemporary studies
Islamic (Arabic and Persian) Logic and Ontology
Logic and Language in Ancient China
Logic and Ontology in Ancient India
Monographic pages on living Ontologists:
Liliana Albertazzi: Ontology and Psychology
D. M. Armstrong's Moderate Realism
The Scientific Philosophy of Mario Bunge
The Ontological Realism of Panayot Butchvarov
The Conceptual Realism of Nino Cocchiarella
George Englebretsen on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers
Kit Fine and the Ontology of Modal Actualism
The Formal Ontology of Roberto Poli
Brian Cantwell Smith: On the Origins of Objects
Fred Sommers: Ontology and the Logic of Terms
Wolniewicz on the Formal Ontology of Situations
John Bacon
George Bealer
Ermanno Bencivenga
Jocelyn Benoist
Mauricio Beuchot
Roy Bhaskar
Keith Campbell
Richard Cartwright
Arindam Chakarabarti
Arkadiusz Chrudzimski
Jan Dejnozka
Jorge J. E. Gracia
Rom Harré
John Heil
Jaakko Hintikka
Herbert Hochberg
Joshua Hoffman
Thomas Hofweber
Dale Jacquette
Jacek Julius Jadacki
Ingvar Johansson
Saul Kripke
Guido Küng
Karel J. Lambert
Henry Laycock
Leonard Linsky
Jonathan E. Lowe
Jean-Luc Marion
Uwe Meixner
Donald W. Mertz
Kevin Mulligan
Frédéric Nef
Mieczyslaw Omyla
Terence Parsons
Jacek Paśniczek
Lorenzo Peña
Jean Petitot
Alvin Plantinga
Graham Priest
Hilary Putnam
William Rapaport
Nicholas Rescher
Gary Rosenkrantz
Edmund Runggaldier
Nathan Salmon
Theodore Sider
Peter Simons
Barry Smith
David Woodruff Smith
John F. Sowa
Amie Lynn Thomasson
William Vallicella
Peter van Inwagen
Achille Varzi
David Weissman
Jan Westerhoff
David Wiggins
Stephen Yablo
Edward Zalta
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's 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 Peripatos after Aristotle's and the Origin of the Corpus Aristotelicum
Ancient Catalogues of Aristotle's Works:
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives, V 22-27
Hesychius and Ptolemy al-Garib
The Oblivion of Being After Aristotle: Theophrastus' Metaphysics
The Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics
The Arabic Rediscovery of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: the Theology of Aristotle
Alphabetical Index of the Authors referred in this Site (P-Z)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
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
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"
History 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
Martin Heidegger on Aletheia (Truth) as Unconcealment
Other Semantics and Predication Before Aristotle: Parmenides and Plato
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. An annotated bibliography
History of the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
Entia Rationis. A Contribution to the History of the Theories on Non-existent Objects
Mathesis universalis: the Search for a Universal Science
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
Ancient Greek Commentators on Aristotle's Categories
Latin Medieval Commentators on Aristotle's Categories
John Scottus Eriugena's Criticism of Categories
Logic and Ontology
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
Theory of Predication and Ontological Analysis in Aristotle's 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)
The Problem of Universals from Antiquity to Our Days
Universals in Antiquity and Middle Ages
Abelard's Logic and the Origins of Nominalism
The Realist Ontology of John Duns Scotus
The Nominalist Ontology of William of Ockham
Ontologists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Pages available:
The Ontological Realism of Gustav Bergmann
Bernard Bolzano's Contributions to Logic and Ontology
Franz Brentano's Immanent Realism
Justus Buchler and the Metaphysics of Natural Complexes
Frege's Ontology: Being, Existence, and Truth
Levels of Reality in Nicolai Hartmann's Ontology
Heidegger on the History of Metaphysics as Ontotheology
Logic and Formal Ontology in the Work of Husserl
Roman Ingarden: Ontology as a Science on the Possible Ways of Existence
Tadeusz Kotarbinski from Ontological Reism to Semantical Concretism
Lesniewski's Systems: Protothetic, Ontology, Mereology
Alexius Meinong's Theory of Objects
C. S. Peirce's Semiotics. The Theory of Categories
Jerzy Perzanowski: Modal Logics, Ontology and Ontologics
Reinach on States of Affairs and Negative Judgments
Bertrand Russell's Ontological Development
Roman Suszko and the non-Fregean Logics
Richard Sylvan (born Routley) on Nonexistent Objects
Twardowski on the Content and Object of Presentations
The Ontology of Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Pages in preparation:
Jon Barwise
Ludwig von Bertalanffy
Hector-Neri Castañeda
Rudolf Carnap
Nelson Goodman
Charles Hartshorme
Konrad Lorenz
Arthur Norman Prior
Willard van Orman Quine
Alfred Whitehead
Annotated Bibliographies of Historians of Philosophy
THIRD SECTION: Pages on Ontology in Languages other than English
Pages en Français
Histoire de la Vérité dans La Philosophie Occidentale:
Aletheia dans la Pensée Grecque d'Homère à l'Âge Hellénistique
Listes Anciennes des Ouvrages d'Aristote: études en français
Hésychius de Milet et Ptolémée el-Garib
Bibliographie des écrits de Jean École sur Christian Wolff
A Student's Guide in Italian
L'Ontologia in Italia (Ontology in Italy)
Last modified: Tuesday, March 09, 2010