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