by Raul Corazzon - e-mail: rc[at]ontology.co

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For an overview see the Index of the Pages or the Alphabetical Index of the Philosophers: A-F - G-O - P-Z; you can also download the page as or see the Table of Contemporary Ontologists (click on the image to see the PDF file)

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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)

  • Selected Bibliography on Being in Linguistics and Philosophy

  Existence (definitions from some leading philosophers)

  • Selected Bibliography on Existence in Philosophy

  Power

  Substance (the evolution of the concept from Ancient Greeks to Modern Times)

  • Selected Bibliography on the History of the Concept of Substance

Selected Ontological Topics

• Language and Ontology

  Linguistic Relativism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) vs. Universal Grammar

  Universal Ontology vs. Ontological Relativity

• Semiotics and Ontology

  John Deely. An Annotated bibliography:

  • 1965 - 1998

  • 1999 - 2010

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

• Modern Theories of Predication

  Existence and Predication:

  • The Frege-Russell 'Is' Ambiguity Thesis

  • Selected bibliography on Existence and Predication

  • Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium (two traditions in 20th century philosophy)

• The Problem of Universals

  The Contemporary Debate

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 Buddhist logic)

  Islamic (Arabic and Persian) Logic and Ontology (the introduction of Greek philosophy in the Islamic world)

The Rediscovery of Ontology in Contemporary Thought

• 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

  • Complete bibliography of Nino Cocchiarella (with abstracts)

  George Englebretsen on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers

  Kit Fine and the Ontology of Modal Actualism:

  • Annotated bibliography 1970 - 1995

  • Annotated bibliography 1996 - 2010

  Brian Cantwell Smith: On the Origins of Objects

  Fred Sommers: Ontology and the Logic of Terms

  Wolniewicz on the Formal Ontology of Situations
  

  Other Living Ontologists:

  A - B

  John Bacon

  George Bealer

  Ermanno Bencivenga

  Jocelyn Benoist

  Mauricio Beuchot

  Roy Bhaskar

  C - H

  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

  J - L

  Dale Jacquette

  Jacek Julius Jadacki

  Ingvar Johansson

  Saul Kripke

  Guido Küng

  Karel J. Lambert

  Henry Laycock

  Leonard Linsky

  Jonathan E. Lowe

  M - Q

  Jean-Luc Marion

  Uwe Meixner

  Donald W. Mertz

  Kevin Mulligan

  Frédéric Nef

  Mieczyslaw Omyla

  Terence Parsons

  Jacek Paśniczek

  Lorenzo Peña

  Jean Petitot

  Alvin Plantinga

  Roberto Poli

  Graham Priest

  Hilary Putnam

  R - S

  William Rapaport

  Nicholas Rescher

  Gary Rosenkrantz

  Edmund Runggaldier

  Nathan Salmon

  Theodore Sider

  Peter Simons

  Barry Smith

  David Woodruff Smith

  John F. Sowa

  T - Z

  Amie Lynn Thomasson

  William Vallicella

  Peter van Inwagen

  Achille Varzi

  David Weissman

  Jan Westerhoff

  David Wiggins

  Stephen Yablo

  Edward Zalta

COMPREHENSIVE INDEX OF THE PAGES

SECOND SECTION: HISTORY OF ONTOLOGY

THIRD SECTION: ONTOLOGICAL TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

FOURTH SECTION: PAGES IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH

LIST OF THE ESSAYS IN PDF FORMAT

RELATED SITES

Three sites (currently under development) which will be devoted to studies on Ontology in Italian, French and German:

Teoria e Storia dell'Ontologia

Théorie et Histoire de l'Ontologie

Theorie und Geschichte der Ontologie

Mobile version of this site for phone and laptop users:

Theory and History of Ontology (Mobile version)

The PDF version of all the pages is also available:

Theory and History of Ontology (PDF version)