Ontology Metaphysics Philosophy
Ontology Metaphysics Philosophy
Ontology
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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- 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.
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- An article describing tropes; by John Bacon.
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- Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.
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- Survey article by Barry Miller.
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- An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists.
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- Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen.
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- Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.
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- An extensive resource site on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.
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- Paper by Axel Randrup defending idealism and arguing that materialism leads to logical contradictions, which closes by considering the implications of this for religion.
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- Robert M. Pirsig deals with the fundamentals of existence and attempts to provide a more coherent system for understanding reality than current paradigms allow.
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- A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.
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- Sequence of short essays on this topic.
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- On the nature of consciousness - looking for soul in a soulless world.
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- Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.
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- Notes on the relational element in the assertion that things exist. Patterned on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
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- Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.
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