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Buffalo Ontology Site
Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/ontology/
The Identity of Indiscernibles
A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-indiscernible/
Tropes
An article describing tropes in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, by John Bacon.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tropes/
Descriptive and Formal Ontology
An extensive resource site on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.
http://www.formalontology.it/
Holes
Holes are an interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists. From the Stanford Encyclopedia.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/
Events
Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/events/
Physicalism
Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/
Abstract Objects
Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Gideon Rosen.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abstract-objects/
Qualia: The Knowledge Argument
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.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/
What is Ontology?
Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.
http://www.formalontology.it/section_4.htm
Why Does Anything Exist?
Sequence of short essays on this topic.
http://www.hedweb.com/nihilism/
Metaphysics of Quality
Robert M. Pirsig deals with the fundamentals of existence and attempts to provide a more coherent system for understanding reality than current paradigms allow.
http://www.moq.org/
Existence
Survey article from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Barry Miller.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existence/
The Metaphysics of Blue
On the nature of consciousness - looking for soul in a soulless world.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5243/
The Shift of Aspect in Language and Thought
Notes on the relational element in the assertion that things exist. Patterned on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/salt/
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