GENERAL INDEX OF THEORY AND HISTORY OF ONTOLOGY

 

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)

The Vocabulary of Ontology

• Introductory Remarks (origin and development of some fundamental concepts)

  Being (linguistic and philosophical perspectives)

  Existence (definitions from some leading philosophers)

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

Language and Ontology

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

Semiotics and Ontology

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

  John Deely. An Annotated Bibliography

Modern Theories of Predication

• Existence and Predication: the Frege-Russell 'Is' Ambiguity Thesis

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

The Problem of Universals

• The Contemporary Debate

 

HISTORY OF ONTOLOGY

Heraclitus and Parmenides: Metaphysics of the One vs. Metaphysics of Being

• Parmenides and the Question of Being in Greek Thought

  Platonism Established: The “Genera of Being” in Plato' Sophist

  Plotinus: the One and the Hierarchy of Being

  The Stoic Doctrine of "Something" as Supreme Genus

Semantics and Predication in Plato's Dialogues

• Plato's Parmenides and the Dilemma of Participation

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

  Plato's Cratylus and the Problem of the “Correctness of Names”

Aristotle and the Problem of the Subject Matter of First Philosophy

• Aristotle's Definition of a Science of Being qua Being

  The Place of Metaphysics in the Ancient Divisions of Philosophy

  The Origin of the Corpus Aristotelicum

  Ancient Catalogues of Aristotle's Works:

  • Diogenes Laërtius, Lives, V 22-27

  • Hesychius and Ptolemy al-Garib

  Theophrastus "On First Principles" (known as his Metaphysics)

  The Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics

GREEK ONTOLOGY IN THE THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD: ARISTOTELIANISM, STOICISM, NEOPLATONISM

Theophrastus

• Theophrastus "On First Principles" (known as his Metaphysics) 

Early Stoicism

• The Stoic Doctrine of "Something" as Supreme Genus

Plotinus and the Beginning of Neoplatonism

• Plotinus: the One and the Hierarchy of Being

  The Neoplatonic Commentators

Plotinus and the Beginning of Neoplatonism

• Plotinus: the One and the Hierarchy of Being

  The Neoplatonic Commentators

ONTOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE AGES

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

  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

The 'Second Beginning' of Metaphysics in the Middle Ages

• 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

ONTOLOGY IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT

• Rise and Fall of Ontology in the Modern Era from Suárez to Kant

  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 Ontologists from 16th to 18th Centuries: I. From Fonseca to Poinsot (1560 - 1644)

  Bibliography of Ontologists from 16th to 18th Centuries: II. From Scheibler to Lambert (1645 - 1777)

  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

The Rediscovery of Ontology in Contemporary Thought

• (in preparation)

 

HISTORY OF LOGIC IN RELATIONSHIP TO ONTOLOGY

General Introduction: Logic and Ontology

• The Logical Works of Aristotle

  Aristotle's Logic: General Survey and Introductory Readings

  Aristotle's Earlier Dialectic: the Topics and Sophistical Refutations

  Aristotle's Categories: see below History of the Doctrine of Categories

  Aristotle's De Interpretatione: Semantics and Philosophy of Language

  Aristotle's Prior Analytics: the Theory of Categorical Syllogism

  Aristotle's Prior Analytics: the Theory of Modal Syllogism

  Aristotle's Posterior Analytics: The Theory of Demonstration

Ancient Logic after Aristotle

• Peripatetic Logic: Eudemus of Rhodes and Theophrastus of Eresus

  The History of Ancient Logic in the Hellenistic Period

  The Dialectical School and the Origins of Propositional Logic

  Stoic Logic: The Dialectic from Zeno to Chrysippus

  The Stoic Doctrine of Lekta (Sayables)

  Ancient Stoic Rhetoric (in preparation)

  Stoic Philosophy of Language and Grammar (in preparation)

  Early Stoic Logicians: Zeno of Citium, Cleanthes, Chrysippus

  The Master Argument: The Sea Battle in De Intepretatione 9, Diodorus Cronus, Philo the Dialectician

  Logic and Rhetoric in the Philosophical Works of Cicero

  Sextus Empiricus and the Skeptical Criticism of Logic and Truth

Developments of Medieval Logic

• Porphyry's Isagoge and his Commentary to Aristotle's Categories

  Boethius' Contribution to the Development of Medieval Logic

  History of Medieval Logic after Boethius to Late Scholasticism

  Medieval Theories of Supposition (Reference) and Mental Language

  Abelard: Logic, Semantics, Ontology and Theories of the Copula

  • I. Logic, Semantics and Ontology in the Work of Abelard

  • II. Theories of the Copula in the Logical Works of Abelard

  An Overview of Buridan's Logical Works

  • I. The Summulae de Dialectica

  • II. The Treatise on Consequences and Other Writings

Developments of Modern Logic

• History of Renaissance and Modern Logic from 1400 to Stuart Mill

  Leibniz on Logic and Semiotics: the Project of a Universal Language

  The Rise of Contemporary Symbolic Logic from Boole to Gödel

A Selection of Prominent Logicians

• From Aristotle to Gödel (1931)

 

ONTOLOGICAL TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

History of the Theories of Truth in Western Philosophy

• Aletheia in the Ancient Greek Thought. General Introduction

  Pre-Philosophical Conceptions of Truth: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, Alexandrine Poets, Thucydides

  Veritas in the Middle Ages from Augustine to Paul of Venice

  Theories of Truth in the Modern Era from Descartes to Kant

  Martin Heidegger on Aletheia (Truth) as Unconcealment

History of the Doctrine of Categories

• The Doctrine of Categories from an Historical Perspective. Introduction

  Semantics and Ontological Analysis in Aristotle's Categories

  The Stoic Doctrine of Categories

  Plotinus' Criticism of Aristotle's and Stoics Categories (Enneads VI, 1-3)

  Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories

  Eriugena, Periphyseon Book I: Aristotelian Logic and Categories

  Latin Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle's Categories

The Problem of Universals from the Antiquity to Middle Ages

• Universals in Antiquity and Middle Ages

  Peter Abelard and the Rise of Nominalism

  The Realist Ontology of John Duns Scotus

  The Nominalist Ontology of William of Ockham

History of the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God

• General Introduction

  The Medieval Period from Anselm of Canterbury to Duns Scotus

  The Modern Period from Suárez to Frege

  The Contemporary Period from Barth to the Present Time

  A Selection of Primary Texts

Pages on the History of Philosophy

• Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius. A bibliography

  Entia Rationis. History of the Theories on Non-existent Objects

  Mathesis universalis: the Search for a Universal Science

 

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDY GUIDES

• Study Guides to Western Philosophy

  Introductory Works, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias

  Bibliography of Philosophy and Manuals of Style

  General Works on the History of Philosophy

  Formal and Descriptive Metaphysics

  Formal and Descriptive Ontology

  Philosophical Logic and Philosophy of Logic

• Study Guides to Comparative Philosophy

  General Studies on Comparative Philosophy (a selection of reference works about non-Western ontology and logic)

  African Philosophy. A Survey of Contemporary Studies (introductory works and studies about African conceptions of Being and Truth)

  Ancient Chinese Logic (a survey of contemporary studies)

  Ancient Indian Logic and Ontology (with particular reference the Nyaya-Vaisesika School)

  Buddhist Logic and Ontology (Indian and Tibetan developments of Buddhist logic)

  Islamic (Arabic and Persian) Logic and Ontology (the introduction of Greek philosophy in the Islamic world)

 

PROMINENT ONTOLOGISTS

ONTOLOGISTS OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

• Bernard Bolzano's (1781-1848) Contributions to logic and ontology. Critical judgments, excerpts from his works, bibliography of critical studies

• Franz Brentano's (1838-1917) 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

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

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

• Edmund Husserl (1858-1938) Formal Ontology and Transcendental Logic. Editions of the works in German and English, bibliography on formal ontology

• Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) (in preparation)

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

• Bertrand Russell's (1872-1970) Ontological Development. Bibliography of studies on his ontological development

• Nicolai Hartmann's (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's (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's (1889-1951) The Ontology of the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus. Bibliography and critical judgments about the ontology of the Tractatus logico-philosophicus

• 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. The history of Metaphysics view under the paradigm of Ontotheology

• Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) (in preparation)

• 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) (in preparation)

• Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) (in preparation)

• Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) (in preparation)

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

• Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) (in preparation)

• Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) (in preparation)

• Arthur Norman Prior (1914-1969) (in preparation)

• Justus Buchler (1914-1991) The Metaphysics of Natural Complexes. Selected bibliography

• Roman Suszko (1919-1979) The Non-Fregean Logics. Selected bibliography with abstracts (all the publications in English)

• Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991) (in preparation)

• Reinhardt Grossmann (1931-2010) The Ontology of Categories. Selected bibliography with abstracts

• Richard Sylvan (born Richard Routley) (1935-1996) Nonexistent Objects. Selected bibliography with abstracts

• Jon Barwise (1942-2000) (in preparation)

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

A SELECTION OF LIVING ONTOLOGISTS

• John Bacon

• George Bealer

• Ermanno Bencivenga

• Jocelyn Benoist

• Mauricio Beuchot

• Roy Bhaskar

• Keith Campbell

• Richard Cartwright

• Arindam Chakarabarti

• Arkadiusz Chrudzimski

• Jan Dejnozka

• Jorge J. E. Gracia

• Rom Harré

• John Heil

• Jaakko Hintikka

• Herbert Hochberg

• Joshua Hoffman

• Thomas Hofweber

• Dale Jacquette

• Jacek Julius Jadacki

• Ingvar Johansson

• Saul Kripke

• Guido Küng

• Karel J. Lambert

• Henry Laycock

• Leonard Linsky

• Jonathan E. Lowe

• Jean-Luc Marion

• Uwe Meixner

• Donald W. Mertz

• Kevin Mulligan

• Frédéric Nef

• Mieczyslaw Omyla

• Terence Parsons

• Jacek Pasniczek

• Lorenzo Peña

• Jean Petitot

• Alvin Plantinga

• Roberto Poli

• Graham Priest

• Hilary Putnam

• William Rapaport

• Nicholas Rescher

• Gary Rosenkrantz

• Edmund Runggaldier

• Nathan Salmon

• Theodore Sider

• Peter Simons

• Barry Smith

• David Woodruff Smith

• John F. Sowa

• Amie Lynn Thomasson

• William Vallicella

• Peter van Inwagen

• Achille Varzi

• David Weissman

• Jan Westerhoff

• David Wiggins

• Stephen Yablo

• Edward Zalta

 

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF HISTORIANS OF PHILOSOPHY

• Jan A. Aertsen

  E. J. Ashworth

  L. M. de Rijk

  John P. Doyle

  Jean École

  Joseph S. Freedman

  Mauro Nasti de Vincentis

  Wilhelm Risse

 

GENERAL INDEXES

• History of Ancient Philosophy from the Presocratics to the Hellenistic Period

• History of Medieval Philosophy from the Boethius to ca. 1400

• History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy

• 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

• Index of the Pages in French and Italian

 

INDEX OF THE PHILOSOPHERS

• A - C

• D - H

• I - O

• P - R

• S - Z

 

Last modified: Friday, September 21, 2012