Philosophy: Metaphysics: Ontology

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

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.

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

An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists.

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.

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.

Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.

Sequence of short essays on this topic.

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

Survey article by Barry Miller.