Directory of Ontology Resources

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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.

Subcategories

• Bergmann, Gustav
• Hartmann, Nicolai
• Ingarden, Roman
• James, William
• Logic and Ontology
• Santayana, George

Resources in This Category

• Buffalo Ontology Site

  http://ontology.buffalo.edu/
  Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.

• Dualism and the Shift of Aspect in Language and Thought

  http://www.shift-of-aspect-in-language-and-thought.net/
  Examines the bearing of the shift of aspect in language and thought on mind/world dualism, and other intractable difficulties affecting the nature of relation, change, reality, meaning and knowledge.

• Qualia: The Knowledge Argument

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/
  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.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Abstract Objects

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abstract-objects/
  Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Events

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/events/
  Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Existence

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existence/
  Survey article by Barry Miller.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Holes

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/
  An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Physicalism

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/
  Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Identity of Indiscernibles

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-indiscernible/
  A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Tropes

  http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tropes/
  An article describing tropes; by John Bacon.

• Theory and History of Ontology

  http://www.ontology.co/
  Resources on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.

• What is Ontology?

  http://www.ontology.co/ontology-definitions-one.htm
  Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.

• Why Does Anything Exist?

  http://www.hedweb.com/nihilism/
  Sequence of short essays on this topic.

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