Theory and History of Ontology
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This page give the complete list of pages; "Ontologists" is a table with links to pages on the most important philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries working on Ontology; for the links to the bibliographies see the Index of the Sections.
Ontologists of the 19th and 20th Centuries
History of Ancient Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Period
History of Medieval Philosophy from Boethius to ca. 1400
History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy
Pages in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese
Index of the Bibliographies on Selected Authors (A - K)
Index of the Bibliographies on Selected Authors (L - Z)
Index of the Bibliographies on Selected Arguments
Annotated Bibliographies of Historians of Philosophy
Complete List of the Essays and Pages by Various Authors in PDF Format
Heraclitus and the Question of the One and the Many
Parmenides and the Question of Being in Greek Thought
Plato's Parmenides and the Dilemma of Participation
Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist
Platonism Established: The “Genera of Being” in Plato' Sophist
Plato's Cratylus and the Problem of the “Correctness of Names”
Aristotle's Definition of a Science of Being qua Being
The Rediscovery of the Corpus Aristotelicum and the Birth of Aristotelianism
Ancient Catalogues of Aristotle's Works:
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives, V 22-27
Hesychius and Ptolemy al-Garib
Listes Anciennes des Ouvrages d'Aristote :
Hésychius de Milet et Ptolémée el-Garib
Theophrastus's Metaphysics: Debating with Aristotle
The Place of Metaphysics in the Ancient Divisions of Philosophy
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. A bibliography
The Stoic Doctrine of "Something" as Supreme Genus
Plotinus: the One and the Hierarchy of Being
Boethius' Metaphysics of Being and Goodness
Boethius' Metaphysics. An Annotated bibliography: First Part: A - J
Boethius' Metaphysics. An Annotated bibliography: Second Part: K - Z
Boethius' Contribution to the Quadrivium. Selected bibliography
The Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Proceedings of the Symposium Platonicum, Aristotelicum, Hellenisticum
Eriugena: Dialectic and Ontology in the Periphyseon
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 Creator of the Term "Ontologia"
Bibliography of the Ontologists from 16th to 18th Centuries:
Francisco Suárez on Metaphysics as the Science of Real Beings
The Philosophy of René Descartes: An Overview
René Descartes. Bibliographie Chronologique et Annotée (Première Partie: 1616-1640)
René Descartes. Bibliographie Chronologique et Annotée (Deuxième Partie: 1641-1650)
Descartes: Biographies, Bibliographies, Dictionnaires, Lexiques
Descartes. Bibliographies, Concordances, Dictionaries, Lexica
Bibliographie des études en français sur la philosophie de Descartes
Bibliography of the studies in English on Descartes' philosophy
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
Christian Wolff's Ontology: Existence as "Complement of Possibility"
Kant from the Critique of Metaphysics to Transcendental Philosophy
(under construction)
Jan A. Aertsen:
John P. Doyle:
Jean École:
Joseph S. Freedman:
Édouard Jeauneau:
Giorgio Tonelli:
Works in Italian - Scritti in Italiano
E. J. Ashworth:
L. M. de Rijk:
Mauro Nasti de Vincentis:
Wilhelm Risse:
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 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
Annotated bibliographies:
Metaphysical fundamentality: A-Gia
Metaphysical fundamentality: Gib-P
Metaphysical fundamentality: R-Z
Metaphysical grounding: Los-Sav
History of metaphysical fundamentality and grounding
History of ontological dependence
Linguistic Relativism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) vs. Universal Grammar
Universal Ontology vs. Ontological Relativity
The Rediscovery of John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas)
The Frege-Russell 'Is' Ambiguity Thesis
Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium (two traditions in 20th century philosophy)
Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) Contributions to Logic and Ontology Critical judgments, excerpts from his works, bibliography of critical studies
Franz Brentano (1838-1917) Ontology and His Immanent Realism Excerpts and bibliography of his works, of the English translations and of the most relevant critical studies
Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) Ontology and Semiotics. The Theory of Categories Bibliography of his writings and about his conception of semiotics and the 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
Stanislaw 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. His conception of Truth as Unconcealment in the Greek thought
The History of Metaphysics as Ontotheology
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) Ontological Realism Selected bibliography with abstracts
Nelson Goodman (1906-1998)
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000)
Arthur Norman Prior (1914-1969)
Justus Buchler (1914-1991) The Metaphysics of Natural Complexes Selected bibliography
Roman Suszko (1919-1979) The non-Fregean Logics Selected bibliography with abstracts (only the publications in English)
Mario Bunge (1919-2020) Selected bibliography on the Scientific Philosophy of Mario Bunge Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
Fred Sommers (1923-2014) on the Logic of Natural Language Complete Annotated bibliography
Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991)
The Moderate Realism of D. M. (David Malet) Armstrong (1926-2014)
Bogusław Wolniewicz on the Formal Ontology of Situations (1927-2017)
Reinhardt Grossmann (1931-2010) The Ontology of Categories
The Ontological Realism 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
George Englebretsen's Contribution to the Rediscovery of Traditional Formal Logic 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
Kit Fine (1946) and the Ontology of Modal Actualism, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics, New York University
Unpublished Papers (available on line)
Kit Fine. Annotated bibliography of the studies on His Philosophy
Liliana Albertazzi (1947): Ontology and Psychology (1947) Principal Investigator at the University of Trento Centre for the Mind and Brain (CIMeC)
Brian Cantwell Smith On the Origins of Objects Professor of information, computer science, and philosophy at University of Toronto
Aletheia in the Ancient Greek Thought. General Introduction
Pre-Philosophical Concepts of Truth
Aletheia dans la Pensée Grecque d'Homère à l'Âge Hellenistique
Parmenides
Sophists
Plato's Doctrine of Truth
Aristotle's Definition of Truth
Epicureanism
Stoicism
Skepticism
Neoplatonism
Veritas in the Middle Ages from Augustine to Paul of Venice
Theories of Truth in Modern Era from Descartes to Kant
The Doctrine of Categories from an Historical Perspective. Introduction
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
Selected bibliography on the Latin Medieval Commentators
Universals in Antiquity and Middle Ages
Peter Abelard and the Rise of Nominalism
General Studies on Comparative Philosophy (a selection of reference works about non-Western Ontology and Logic)
Selected bibliography on Comparative Philosophy
African Philosophy. A Survey of Contemporary Studies (introductory works and studies about African conceptions of Being and Truth)
