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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)
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)
Linguistic Relativism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) vs. Universal Grammar
Universal Ontology vs. Ontological Relativity
Existence and Predication: the Frege-Russell 'Is' Ambiguity Thesis
Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium (two traditions in 20th century philosophy)
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
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
Bibliography on the Philosophical Work of Eriugena:
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
Jacob Lorhard (1561-1609): The Creation of the Term "Ontologia"
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
(in preparation)