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Semantics and Predication Before Aristotle: Parmenides and Plato
DETAILED INDEX OF THE PAGES ON PARMENIDES
Plato's Parmenides and the Dilemma of Participation
Semantics, Predication, Truth and Falsehood in Plato's Sophist
Platonism Established: The “Genera of Being” in Plato' Sophist
Platonism Reversed: the Stoic Doctrine of “Something” as Supreme Genus
Plato' Cratylus and the problem of the “correctness of names”
Metaphysics or Ontology? The Debate about the Subject Matter of First Philosophy
DETAILED INDEX OF THE PAGES ON ARISTOTLE
Aristotle's Definition of a Science of Being qua Being
The Place of Metaphysics in the Ancient Divisions of Philosophy
The Peripatos after Aristotle's and the Origin of the Corpus Aristotelicum
Ancient Catalogues of Aristotle's Works:
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives, V 22-27
Hesychius and Ptolemy al-Garib
The Oblivion of Being After Aristotle: Theophrastus' Metaphysics
The Neoplatonic Commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics
The Arabic Rediscovery of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: the Theology of Aristotle
Al-Kindi's Metaphysics: First Philosophy as the Study of God
Al-Farabi on the Scopes of the Aristotelian Metaphysics
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) on Being qua Being as the Subject of Metaphysics
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) on the Divine as the Subject of Metaphysics
The 'Second Beginning' of Metaphysics
Introducing Aristotle in Middle Ages: the Latin Translations of the Metaphysics
A Neoplatonic Metaphysics: the Liber de Causis
The Place of Metaphysics in the Medieval Classification of Sciences
Thomas Aquinas Doctrine of the Act of Being (Actus Essendi)
Duns Scotus: Univocity of Being and the Subject of Metaphysics
Properties of Being: the Medieval Doctrine of the Transcendentals
The Rise and Fall of Ontology in the Modern Era from Suarez to Kant
The Birth of a New Science: History of Ontology from Suarez to Kant
Jacob Lorhard (1561-1609): The Creation of the Term "Ontologia"
A Selection of Ontologists from Fonseca to Crusius (1560-1770)
Francisco Suarez on Metaphysics as the Science of Real Beings
Christian Wolff's Ontology: Existence as "Complement of Possibility"
Kant from the Critique of Metaphysics to Transcendental Philosophy
The Rediscovery of Ontology in Contemporary Thought
Ontologists of the 19th and 20th Centuries (a selection of critical judgments about some of the greatest philosophers of the recent past)
Living Ontologists (a list of authors with an interest in ontology, with synthetic bibliographies)
THIRD SECTION: PAGES IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH
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