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Buffalo Ontology Site
Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications. (infos)Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: 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. (infos)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Tropes
An article describing tropes; by John Bacon. (infos)
Descriptive and Formal Ontology
An extensive resource site on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century. (infos)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Holes
An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists. (infos)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Events
Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi. (infos)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Physicalism
Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar. (infos)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Abstract Objects
Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen. (infos)
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. (infos)
What is Ontology?
Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl. (infos)