Ontology is defined as the branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature relations of being or existence. It is the field of study concerned with the classification of entities.
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Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.
Aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It is one of the most discussed arguments against physicalism; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Martine Nida-Rümelin.
Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen.
Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.
Survey article by Barry Miller.
An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists.
Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.
A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.
An article describing tropes; by John Bacon.
Resources on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.
Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.
Sequence of short essays on this topic.
Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.
Resources on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.
Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.
Sequence of short essays on this topic.
Survey article by Barry Miller.
An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists.
Aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It is one of the most discussed arguments against physicalism; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Martine Nida-Rümelin.
An article describing tropes; by John Bacon.
A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.
Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.
Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.
Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen.
