Theory and History of Ontology
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Theory and History of Ontology by Raul Corazzon | e-mail: rc@ontology.co
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.
Heraclitus and the Question of the One and the Many (under construction)
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 (under construction)
Plato's Cratylus and the Problem of the “Correctness of Names” (under construction)
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 Birth 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 :
Theophrastus of Eresus
Theophrastus's Metaphysics: Debating with Aristotle
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 (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)
The Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics
Alexander of Aphrodisias' metaphysics: Annotated bibliography
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"
I. From Fonseca to Poinsot (1560 - 1644)
II. From Scheibler to Lambert (1645 - 1777)
Bibliography of the Ontologists from 16th to 18th Centuries:
Francisco Suárez on Metaphysics as the Science of Real Beings
René Descartes. Bibliographie Chronologique et Annotée (Première Partie: 1616-1640)
René Descartes. Bibliographie Chronologique et Annotée (Deuxième Partie: 1641-1650)
Descartes' Ontology: From the Rules for the Direction of the Mind to the Meditations on First Philosophy
Christian Wolff's Ontology: Existence as "Complement of Possibility"
Kant from the Critique of Metaphysics to Transcendental Philosophy
(under construction)
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)
Annotated bibliographies:
History of metaphysical fundamentality and grounding
History of ontological dependence
For the contributions of Kit Fine see His Annotated bibliography in the Section Ontologists
Linguistic Relativism (Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis) vs. Universal Grammar
Universal Ontology vs. Ontological Relativity
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. Annotated bibliography of his works, of the English translations and of the most relevant critical studies
Franz Brentano: Editions and translations
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
Stanislaw Lesniewski (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 with abstracts (only the publications in English)
Mario Bunge (1919-2020). Selected bibliography
Fred Sommers (1923-2004) on the Logic of Natural Language
Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991)
Selected bibliography of (David Malet) Armstrong (1926-2014)
Bogusław Wolniewicz on the Formal Ontology of Situations (1927) Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Warsaw University
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
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
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
Universals in Antiquity and Middle Ages
Peter Abelard and the Rise of Nominalism
