Theory and History of Ontology
by Raul Corazzon - e-mail: raul.corazzon[at]formalontology.it
For an overview see the Index of the Pages, the SITE MAP or the Alphabetical Index of the Philosophers: A-F - G-O - P-Z; You can also download this page as
Table of Contemporary Ontologists 
(click on the image to see the PDF file)
Index of the Section "The Rediscovery of Ontology in Contemporary Thought"
Table of Formal and Descriptivists Ontologists (PDF - from Bernard Bolzano to present time)
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)
From an initial proposal by Roberto Poli - Feedback by Nino Cocchiarella, Ingvar Johansson and Barry Smith
ONTOLOGISTS
Bernard Bolzano's contributions to logic and ontology (1781-1848) Critical judgments, excerpts from his works, bibliography of critical studies
Franz Brentano's Immanent Realism (1838-1917) Excerpts and bibliography of his works, of the English translations and of the most relevant critical studies
Charles S. Peirce: Ontology and Semiotics. The Theory of Categories (1839-1914) Bibliography of his writings and about his conception of semiotics and the theory of categories
Gottlob Frege on Being, Existence and Truth (1848-1925) Excerpts from texts, studies and bibliography on his conceptions of being, existence and truth
Alexius Meinong's Theory of Objects (1853-1920) Bibliography of his works (original edition and English translations) and of the most relevant critical studies
Logic and Formal Ontology in the Work of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) Editions of the works in German and English, bibliography on formal ontology
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) (in preparation)
Kazimierz Twardowski on the Content and Object of Presentations (1866-1938) Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
Bertrand Russell's Ontological Development (1872-1970) Bibliography of studies on his ontological development
Levels of Reality in Nicolai Hartmann's Ontology (1882-1950) Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
Adolf Reinach on States of Affairs (Sachverhalt) and Negative Judgments (1883-1917) Bibliography of the works and translations; selection of the most relevant critical studies
Stanislaw Lesniewski's Logical Systems: Protothetic, Ontology, Mereology (1886-1939) Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
Tadeusz Kotarbinski from Reism to Pansomatism (1886-1981) Bibliography of his works and of the most relevant critical studies
The Ontology of Wittgenstein's Tractatus (1889-1951) Bibliography and critical judgments about the ontology of the Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Martin Heidegger Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works) (1889-1976) List of the works in the German edition
Martin Heidegger on Truth (Alethéia) as Unconcealment His conception of Truth as Unconcealment in the Greek thought
Martin Heidegger on the History of Metaphysics as Ontotheology The history of Metaphysics view under the paradigm of Ontotheology
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) (in preparation)
Roman Ingarden on the Realism / Idealism Debate (1893-1970) Bibliography of the works in German and of the translations; selection of the most relevant critical studies
Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000) (in preparation)
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) (in preparation)
Konrad Lorenz (1903-1989) (in preparation)
The Ontological Realism of Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) Selected bibliography with abstracts
Nelson Goodman (1906-1998) (in preparation)
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) (in preparation)
Arthur Norman Prior (1914-1969) (in preparation)
Justus Buchler and the Metaphysics of Natural Complexes (1914-1991) Selected bibliography
Roman Suszko and the non-Fregean Logics (1919-1979) Selected bibliography with abstracts (all the publications in English)
Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991) (in preparation)
Richard Sylvan (born Richard Routley) on Nonexistent Objects (1935-1996) Selected bibliography with abstracts
Jon Barwise (1942-2000) (in preparation)
Jerzy Perzanowski: Modal Logics, Ontology and Ontologics (1943-2009) Complete bibliography of the works in English with abstracts
Last modified: Monday, February 08, 2010