Skip to main content
  • History of Ontology 
  • Theory of Ontology 
  • Vocabulary of Ontology 
  • Modern Ontologists 
  • History of Truth 
  • Doctrine of Categories 
  • Problem of Universals 
  • Comparative Philosophy 

Digital Quadrivium Project by Raul Corazzon: four websites

Ontologia
Logica
Rhetorica
Bibliographia
Ontologia
Logica
Rhetorica
Bibliographia

Theory and History of Ontology (www.ontology.co)

by Raul Corazzon | e-mail: rc@ontology.co

  • Skip to main content

 

Digital Quadrivium Project by Raul Corazzon: four websites

Ontologia: Theory and History of Ontology

Ontologia

 

  • Logica: History of Logic
  • Rhetorica: Theory and History of Rhetoric
  • Bibliographia: Bibliographies on religion and philosophy

 

  • Click to show the MENU
  • History
  • Theory
  • Vocabulary
  • Ontologists
  • History of Truth
  • Doctrine of Categories
  • Problem of Universals
  • Comparative Philosophy
  • Click to hide the MENU

Theory and History of Ontology

A.I. Chatbots on the Digital Quadrivium Project

Content of the website

This website can also be read or downloaded as ebook:

Read online  Download

Search in the four Websites:

 

Table of Contents

For ease of reading, I made the following index (the function "Search" can be used to find a particular Author or Subject).

This is the list of the pages; "Ontologists" is a table with links to pages on the most important philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries working on Ontology.

History of Ontology

Heraclitus and Parmenides

Heraclitus and the Question of the One and the Many (under construction)

Parmenides and the Question of Being in Greek Thought

PDF version Parmenides. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

The Philosophy of Plato

Plato's Parmenides and the Dilemma of Participation

PDF version The Third Man Argument: Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist

PDF version Platos' Sophist. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

Platonism Established: The “Genera of Being” in Plato' Sophist (under construction)

Plato's Cratylus and the Problem of the “Correctness of Names” (under construction)

The Philosophy of Aristotle

Aristotle's Categories

See the section on the History of the Categories

Aristotle about the Subject Matter of Metaphyics

Aristotle's Definition of a Science of Being qua Being

The Origins of Aristotelianism

Aristotle: Bibliographical Resources on His Logical and Metaphysical Works

The Rediscovery of the Corpus Aristotelicum

Ancient Catalogues of Aristotle's Works:

Diogenes Laertius, Lives, V 22-27

Hesychius and Ptolemy al-Garib

Listes Anciennes des Ouvrages d'Aristote :

Diogène Laërce, Vies V, 22-27

Hésychius de Milet et Ptolémée el-Garib

On the website "History of Logic"

Aristotle's Logic: General Survey and Introductory Readings

Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Semantics and Philosophy of Language

Aristotle's Prior Analytics: the Theory of Categorical Syllogism

History of Ancient Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Period

On the website "Theory and History of Rhetoric"

Aristotle's Rhetoric. Bibliography of the studies in English (seven pages)

 

Hellenistic Philosophy

Theophrastus of Eresus

Theophrastus's Metaphysics: Debating with Aristotle

Ancient Divisions of Philosophy (under construction)

 

On the website "History of Logic"

Selected Bibliography on the Logic of Eudemus and Theophrastus

Early Stoicism

The Stoic Doctrine of "Something" as Supreme Genus (under construction)

Selected bibliography on Stoic Ontology

 

On the website "History of Logic"

Index of the Section Stoic Logic

Plotinus and the Beginning of Neoplatonism

Plotinus: the One and the Hierarchy of Being (under construction)

Diogenes Laertius

Diogenes Laertius: Selected bibliography of the studies in English (A-Lea)

Diogenes Laertius: Selected bibliography of the studies in English (Lew-Z)

Proceedings of the Symposia on Ancient Philosophy

Proceedings of the Symposium Platonicum

Proceedings of the Symposium Aristotelicum

Proceedings of the Symposium Hellenisticum

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Boethius' Metaphysics of Being and Goodness

 

On the website "History of Logic"

Boethius' Contribution to the Development of Medieval Logic

The Neoplatonic Commentators

The Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics

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 (under construction)

Al-Kindi's Metaphysics: First Philosophy as the Study of God (under construction)

Al-Farabi on the Scopes of the Aristotelian Metaphysics (under construction)

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

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

The 'Second Beginning' of Metaphysics

Introducing Aristotle in Middle Ages: the Latin translations of the Metaphysics (under construction)

A Neoplatonic Metaphysics: the Liber de Causis (under construction)

The Place of Metaphysics in the Medieval Classification of Sciences (under construction)

Thomas Aquinas Doctrine of the Act of Being (Actus Essendi) (under construction)

Duns Scotus: Univocity of Being and the Subject of Metaphysics (under construction)

Properties of Being: the Medieval Doctrine of the Transcendentals (under construction)

Metaphysics or Ontology? The Debate about the Subject-Matter of First Philosophy

Ontology in Modern Philosophy

The History of Ontology from Suárez to Kant

Jacob Lorhard (1561-1609): The Creator of the Term "Ontologia"

Bibliography of the Ontologists from 16th to 18th Centuries:

I. From Fonseca to Poinsot (1560 - 1644)

II. From Scheibler to Lambert (1645 - 1777)

Francisco Suárez on Metaphysics as the Science of Real Beings

The Philosophy of René Descartes

René Descartes. Bibliographie Chronologique et Annotée (Première Partie: 1616-1628)

René Descartes. Bibliographie Chronologique et Annotée (Deuxième Partie: 1628-1637)

René Descartes. Bibliographie Chronologique et Annotée (Troisième Partie: 1637-1644)

René Descartes. Bibliographie Chronologique et Annotée (Quatrième Partie: 1645-1650)

PDF version Oeuvres de René Descartes. Bibliographie annotée: PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

Descartes' Ontology: From the Rules for the Direction of the Mind to the Meditations on First Philosophy

Bibliographie sur René Descartes et la recherche de la mathesis universalis

Ontology from Wolff to Kant

Christian Wolff's Ontology: Existence as "Complement of Possibility"

Kant from the Critique of Metaphysics to Transcendental Philosophy (under construction)

The Rediscovery of Ontology in Contemporary Thought

(under construction)

Index of the Section Historians of Philosophy

Annotated Bibliographies of historians of Philosophy

Index of the Section Historians of Logic

On the website "History of Logic"

Annotated Bibliographies of historians of Logic

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)

Metaphysical Explanation

Annotated bibliographies:

Metaphysical fundamentality

PDF version Metaphysical fundamentality. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

Metaphysical grounding

PDF version Metaphysical grounding. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

History of metaphysical fundamentality and grounding: A-M

History of metaphysical fundamentality and grounding: N-Z

PDF version History of metaphysical fundamentality and grounding. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

Ontological dependence

PDF version Ontological dependence. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

History of ontological dependence

PDF version History of ontological dependence. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

For the contributions of Kit Fine see His Annotated bibliography

PDF version Annotated bibliography of Kit Fine. Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

 

Language and Ontology

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

Universal Ontology vs. Ontological Relativity (under construction)

Semiotics and Ontology

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

John Deely. An Annotated bibliography

Modern Theories of Predication

The Frege-Russell 'Is' Ambiguity Thesis

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

Vocabulary of Ontology

Introductory remarks (Origin and development of some fundamental concepts with a selection of the most relevant texts)

Being (Linguistic and philosophical perspectives)

Existence (Definitions from some leading philosophers)

The Problem of Nonexistent Objects

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

Mathesis Universalis: the Search for a Universal Science

Ontologists of the 19th and 20th centuries

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) Contributions to Logic and Ontology Critical judgments, excerpts from his works, bibliography of critical studies

PDF version Bernard Bolzano. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

Franz Brentano (1838-1917) Ontology and His Immanent Realism. Annotated bibliography of his works, of the English translations and of the most relevant critical studies

Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) Bibliography on His Theory of Categories

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) Ontology: Being, Existence, and Truth Excerpts from texts, studies and bibliography on his conceptions of being, existence and truth

Alexius Meinong (1853-1920) Theory of Objects Bibliography of his works (original edition and English translations) and of the most relevant critical studies

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) Formal Ontology and Transcendental Logic Editions of the works in German and English, bibliography on formal ontology

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938) The Content and Object of Presentations Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) His Ontological Development Bibliography of studies on his ontological development

Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950) Levels of Reality and Ontology) Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies

Adolf Reinach (1883-1917) States of Affairs (Sachverhalt) and Negative Judgments Bibliography of the works and translations; selection of the most relevant critical studies

Stanisław Leśniewski (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

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) The Ontology of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Bibliography and critical judgments about the ontology of the Tractatus

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works) List of the works in the German edition

Truth (Alethéia) as Unconcealment. Selected bibliography

The History of Metaphysics as Ontotheology. Selected bibliography

Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970)

Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) 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)

Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972)

Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989)

Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987). Selected bibliography with abstracts

Nelson Goodman (1906-1998)

Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000)

Arthur Norman Prior (1914-1969)

Annotated bibliography of the works by Justus Buchler (1914-1991)

Roman Suszko (1919-1979) The non-Fregean Logics Selected bibliography of the publications in English

Mario Bunge (1919-2020). Selected bibliography

Fred Sommers (1923-2014) on the Logic of Natural Language Complete Annotated bibliography

Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991)

Selected bibliography of (David Malet) Armstrong (1926-2014)

Bogusław Wolniewicz on the Formal Ontology of Situations (1927-2017)

Reinhardt Grossmann (1931-2010) The Ontology of Categories

Selected bibliography of Panayot Butchvarov (1933) Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Iowa

The Conceptual Realism of Nino Cocchiarella (1933) Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University

Richard Sylvan [born Richard Routley] (1935-1996) Nonexistent Objects Selected bibliography with abstracts

Selected bibliography of George Englebretsen Professor Emeritus at Bishop's University, Canada

Jon Barwise (1942-2000)

Jerzy Perzanowski (1943-2009) Modal Logics, Ontology and Ontologics Complete bibliography of the works in English with abstracts

Annotated bibliography of Kit Fine (1946) Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics, New York University

Annotated bibliography of Liliana Albertazzi (1947) (1947) Principal Investigator at the University of Trento Centre for the Mind and Brain (CIMeC)

Selected bibliography of Brian Cantwell Smith Professor of information, computer science, and philosophy at University of Toronto

History of Truth in Western Philosophy

Aletheia in the Ancient Greek Thought. General Introduction

Pre-Philosophical Concepts of Truth

Aletheia dans la Pensée Grecque d'Homère à l'Âge Hellenistique

Veritas in the Middle Ages from Augustine to Paul of Venice

Martin Heidegger on Aletheia (Truth) as Unconcealment

Pages under construction:

Parmenides

Sophists

Plato's Doctrine of Truth

Aristotle's Definition of Truth

Epicureanism

Stoicism

Skepticism

Neoplatonism

Theories of Truth in Modern Era from Descartes to Kant

History of the Doctrine of Categories

The Doctrine of Categories from an Historical Perspective

Semantics and Ontological Analysis in Aristotle's Categories

The Stoic Doctrine of Supreme Genera (Categories)

Plotinus' Criticism of the Doctrine of Categories (Enneads VI, 1-3)

Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories

Eriugena, Periphyseon Book I: Aristotelian Logic and Categories

Latin Medieval Commentators on Aristotle's Categories

PDF version Aristotle's Doctrine of Categories. Annotated bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

The Problem of Universals from the Antiquity to Middle Ages

The Problem of Universals: the Contemporary Debats

Universals in Antiquity and Middle Ages

Peter Abelard and the Rise of Nominalism (under construction)

The Realist Ontology of John Duns Scotus

The Nominalist Ontology of William of Ockham

 

On the website "History of Logic"

The Logic of Peter Abelard

Comparative Philosophy

Intercultural and Comparative Philosophy. A survey

PDF version Intercultural and Comparative philosophy. Bibliography of the studies in English: Complete PDF Version on the website Academia.edu

African Philosophy

Pages under construction:

Ancient Chinese Philosophy

Ancient Indian Philosophy

Ancient Buddhist Philosophy

Ancient Islamic (Arabic and Persian) Philosophy

 

On the website "History of Logic"

Ancient Chinese Logic (a survey of contemporary studies)

Ancient Indian Logic and Ontology

Bibliography on the Indian grammarian-philosopher Bhartrhari

Bibliography on the Indian logician Gaṅgeśa

Buddhist Logic and Ontology. Indian and Tibetan developments

Bibliography on the Buddhist logician Dignāga

Bibliography on the Buddhist logician Dharmakīrti

Bibliography on the Buddhist logician Nāgārjuna

Islamic (Arabic and Persian) Logic and Ontology

  • Click to show the SITEMAP
  • Contents of the Website
  • History of Ontology from Antiquity to Twentieth Century
  • Theory of Ontology: Contemporary Views
  • Vocabulary of Ontology
  • Ontologists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • History of Truth in Western Philosophy
  • History of the Doctrine of Categories
  • The Problem of Universals: Ancient and Modern
  • Resources on Comparative Philosophy
  • History of Ancient Philosophy up to the Hellenistic Period
  • History of Medieval Philosophy from Boethius to ca. 1400
  • History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
  • Annotated Bibliographies of Historians of Philosophy
  • Index of pages in languages other than English
  • Essays in PDF format by Various Authors
  • Index of the Philosophers
  • Index of the Bibliographies on Selected Authors
  • Click to hide the SITEMAP

 

  • Skip to the top

 

  • e-mail: rc@ontology.co Uptime Privacy EN | IT

 

  • e-mail: rc@ontology.co PDF || Uptime Privacy EN | IT