Abridged Index of the Site and Alphabetical Index of the Philosophers (First Part)

 

Second Part

Alphabetical Index of the Philosophers

• A - F

  G - O

  P - Z

SUMMARY

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)

  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

• The Rediscovery of John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas)

  John Deely. An Annotated Bibliography

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

• The Contemporary Debate

 

HISTORY OF ONTOLOGY

Heraclitus and Parmenides: Metaphysics of the One vs. Metaphysics of Being

• 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

Semantics and Predication in Plato's Dialogues

• 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 and the Problem of 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 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 HELLENISTIC PERIOD: STOICISM, NEOPLATONISM, ARISTOTELIANISM

• Theophrastus

  The Oblivion of Being After Aristotle: Theophrastus' Metaphysics

• The Place of Metaphysics in the Ancient Divisions of Philosophy

• Early Stoicism

  The Stoic Doctrine of "Something" as Supreme Genus

• Plotinus and the Beginning of Neoplatonism

  Plotinus: the One and the Hierarchy of Being

  The Neoplatonic Commentators

• Plotinus and the Beginning of Neoplatonism

  Plotinus: the One and the Hierarchy of Being

  The Neoplatonic Commentators

ONTOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

• Eriugena and the Neoplatonic Metaphysics in the Early Middle Ages

  Eriugena: Dialectic and Ontology in the Periphyseon

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

  Ibn Sina (Avicenna) on the Subject and the Object of Metaphysics

  Averroes (Ibn Rushd) on the Divine as the Subject of Metaphysics

The 'Second Beginning' of Metaphysics in the Middle Ages

• 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

Rise and Fall of Ontology in the Modern Era from Suárez to Kant

• 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

The Rediscovery of Ontology in Contemporary Thought

• (in preparation)

 

Index of the Bibliographies on Selected Philosophers

Index of the Bibliographies on Selected Arguments

Index of Pages in Languages other than English

Index of the Pages in PDF Format

List of the Essays in PDF Format

 

 

Last modified: Tuesday, May 29, 2012