by Raul Corazzon - e-mail: raul.corazzon[at]ontology.co
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What is Ontology? - First Part (From Christian Wolff to Edmund Husserl)
What is Ontology? - Second Part (From Nicolai Hartmann to the present time)
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)
Language and Ontology
Linguistic Relativism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) vs. Universal Grammar
Universal Ontology vs. Ontological Relativity
Semiotics and Ontology
Modern Theories of Predication
Existence and Predication: the Frege-Russell 'Is' Ambiguity Thesis
Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium (two traditions in 20th century philosophy)
The Problem of Universals
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 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 Buddhist logic)
Islamic (Arabic and Persian) Logic and Ontology (the introduction of Greek philosophy in the Islamic world)
Heraclitus and the Question of the One and the Many
Parmenides and the Question of Being in Greek Thought
Platonism Established: The “Genera of Being” in Plato' Sophist
Plotinus: the One and the Hierarchy of Being
Platonism Reversed: the Stoic Doctrine of “Something” as Supreme Genus
Plato's Parmenides and the Dilemma of Participation
Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist
Plato's Cratylus and the Problem of the “Correctness of Names”
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
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
Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on the Subject and the Object of Metaphysics
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) on the Divine as the Subject 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
Metaphysics or Ontology? The Debate about the Subject-Matter of First Philosophy
Birth of a New Science: the History of Ontology from Suárez to Kant
A Selection of Ontologists from Fonseca to Crusius (1560-1770)
Francisco Suárez 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
Ontologists of the 19th and 20th Centuries (a selection of critical judgments about some of the greatest philosophers of the recent past):
Bernard Bolzano's (1781-1848) contributions to logic and ontology. Critical judgments, excerpts from his works, bibliography of critical studies
Franz Brentano's (1838-1917) Immanent Realism. Excerpts and bibliography of his works, of the English translations and of the most relevant critical studies
Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914): Ontology and Semiotics. The Theory of Categories. Bibliography of his writings and about his conception of semiotics and the theory of categories
Frege's (1848-1925) Ontology: Being, Existence, and Truth. Excerpts from texts, studies and bibliography on his conceptions of being, existence and truth
Alexius Meinong's (1853-1920) Theory of Objects. Bibliography of his works (original edition and English translations) and of the most relevant critical studies
Logic and Formal Ontology in the Work of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). Editions of the works in German and English, bibliography on formal ontology
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) (in preparation)
Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) on the Content and Object of Presentations. Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
Bertrand Russell's (1872-1970) Ontological Development. Bibliography of studies on his ontological development
Levels of Reality in Nicolai Hartmann's (1882-1950) Ontology. Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
Adolf Reinach (1883-1917) on States of Affairs (Sachverhalt) and Negative Judgments. Bibliography of the works and translations; selection of the most relevant critical studies
Stanislaw Lesniewski's (1886-1939) Logical Systems: Protothetic, Ontology, Mereology. Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
Tadeusz Kotarbinski (1886-1981) from Reism to Pansomatism. Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
The Ontology of Wittgenstein's (1889-1951) Tractatus. Bibliography and critical judgments about the ontology of the Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works). List of the works in the German edition
Martin Heidegger on Truth (Alethéia) as Unconcealment. His conception of Truth as Unconcealment in the Greek thought
Martin Heidegger on the History of Metaphysics as Ontotheology. The history of Metaphysics view under the paradigm of Ontotheology
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) (in preparation)
Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) on the Realism / Idealism Debate. Bibliography of the works in German and of the translations; selection of the most relevant critical studies
Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) (in preparation)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) (in preparation)
Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) (in preparation)
The Ontological Realism of Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) Selected bibliography with abstracts
Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) (in preparation)
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) (in preparation)
Arthur Norman Prior (1914-1969) (in preparation)
Justus Buchler (1914-1991) and the Metaphysics of Natural Complexes. Selected bibliography
Roman Suszko (1919-1979) and the non-Fregean Logics. Selected bibliography with abstracts (all the publications in English)
Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991) (in preparation)
Richard Sylvan (born Richard Routley) (1935-1996) on Nonexistent Objects. Selected bibliography with abstracts
Jon Barwise (1942-2000) (in preparation)
Jerzy Perzanowski (1943-2009): Modal Logics, Ontology and Ontologics. Complete bibliography of the works in English with abstracts
Living Ontologists (a list of authors with an interest in ontology, with synthetic bibliographies)
General Introduction: Logic and Ontology
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
The Master Argument: The Sea Battle in De Intepretatione 9, Diodorus Cronus, Philo the Dialectician
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 and the Origins of Propositional Logic
Stoic Logic: The Dialectic and the Doctrine of Lekta (Sayables)
Early Stoic Logicians: Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, Chrysippus
Sextus Empiricus and the Skeptical Criticism of Logic and Truth
Porphyry's Isagoge and his Commentary to Aristotle's Categories
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
Buridan's Logical Works. I. An Overview of the Summulae de dialectica
Buridan's Logical Works. II. The Treatise on Consequences and other writings
History of Renaissance and Modern Logic from 1400 to Stuart Mill
Leibniz on Logic and Semiotics: the Project of a Universal Language
The Rise of Contemporary Symbolic Logic from Boole to Gödel
A Selection of Great Logicians from Aristotle to Gödel (1931)
General Introduction: Ontological Categories
Theory of Predication and Ontological Analysis in Aristotle's Categories
Grammar and Philosophy: The Stoic Theory of Categories
Plotinus' Criticism of Aristotle's Categories (Enneads VI, 1-3)
Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories
John Scottus Eriugena Criticism of Categories: Periphyseon Book I
Aletheia in the Ancient Greek Thought. General Introduction
Pre-Philosophical Conceptions of Truth: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Alexandrine Poets, Thucydides
Veritas in the Middle Ages from Augustine to Paul of Venice
Theories of Truth in the Modern Era from Descartes to Kant
Universals in Antiquity and Middle Ages
Abelard's Logic and the Origins of Nominalism
The Medieval Period from Anselm of Canterbury to Duns Scotus
The Modern Period from Suáez to Frege
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. A bibliography
Entia Rationis. History of the Theories on Non-existent Objects