by Raul Corazzon - e-mail: rc[at]ontology.co
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Table of Contemporary Ontologists
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Heraclitus and the Question of the One and the Many
Parmenides and the Question of Being in Greek Thought
Selected Bibliography on Parmenides:
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
Selected Bibliography on 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:
Listes Anciennes des Ouvrages d'Aristote:
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
Selected Bibliography on Avicenna' Logic and 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
Ontologists of the 19th and 20th Centuries (a selection of critical judgments about some of the greatest philosophers of the recent past)
Pages available:
The Ontological Realism of Gustav Bergmann
Bernard Bolzano's Contributions to Logic and Ontology
Selected bibliography on Bolzano's Logic and Ontology:
Franz Brentano's Immanent Realism
Selected bibliography on Brentano's Ontology:
Justus Buchler and the Metaphysics of Natural Complexes
Frege's Ontology: Being, Existence, and Truth
Levels of Reality in Nicolai Hartmann's Ontology
Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe (Collected Edition)
Logic and Formal Ontology in the Work of Husserl
Selected bibliography on Husserl's Logic and Ontology:
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
Selected bibliography on 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
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
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