Philosophy: Metaphysics: Ontology

Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.

An extensive resource site on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.

Robert M. Pirsig deals with the fundamentals of existence and attempts to provide a more coherent system for understanding reality than current paradigms allow.

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-Rmelin.

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.