Theory and History of Ontology (Mobile version)
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SUMMARY
Semantics and Predication Before Aristotle: Parmenides and Plato
Parmenides of Elea's Way of Truth
DETAILED INDEX OF THE PAGES ON PARMENIDES
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 AND THE REDISCOVERY OF THE CORPUS ARISTOTELICUM
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:
Avicenna's Conception of the Metaphysics as the Science of "Being qua Being"
Translations of Philosophical Works
Bibliography on Avicenna's Logic and 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 Splitting of Metaphysics in Metaphysica generalis (Ontology) and Metaphysica specialis (Theology)
Historical Divisions of Metaphysics in a Nutshell
The Splitting of Metaphysics in German Philosophy (1594 -1613)
Selected Bibliography on the Splitting of Metaphysics (1594 - 1650):
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:
The Origin of a New Term: "Ontologia"
The First Occurrence of "Ontology" in English
The First Texts with the Term "Ontologia" (1606 - 1663)
Johannes Clauberg and Rudolph Göckel (Goclenius)
Further Developments in the History of Ontology
A Selection of Ontologists from Fonseca to Crusius (1560-1770)
Benito Pereira and Diego de Zúñiga
From Rudolf Göckel (Goclenius) to Cristóbal de los Cobos
From Clemens Timpler to Bartolomeo Mastri
From Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz to Jean Baptiste Du Hamel
From Jean Le Clerc to Christian August Crusius
Francisco Suarez on Metaphysics as the Science of Real Beings:
An Outline of the Metaphysical Disputations
Exclusion of the "Beings of Reason" from the Subject of Metaphysics
Selected Bibliography on the Metaphysical Works of Francisco Suarez:
Editions and Translations of the Metaphysical Disputations
Critical Studies:
Christian Wolff's Ontology: Existence as "Complement of Possibility":
Introduction: Being and existence
An Overview of Wolff's Philosophia prims sive Ontologia
A Selection of Wolff's Metaphysical Works
Selected Bibliography:
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)
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