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» Abstract Objects - Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by Gideon Rosen.
» Buffalo Ontology Site - Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.
» Descriptive and Formal Ontology - An extensive resource site on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.
» Events - Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.
» Existence - Survey article from the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Barry Miller.
» Holes - Holes are an interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists. From the Stanford Encyclopedia.
» 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.
» Physicalism - Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.
» 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.
» 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.
» The Metaphysics of Blue - On the nature of consciousness - looking for soul in a soulless world.
» 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.
» Tropes - An article describing tropes in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, by John Bacon.
» What is Ontology? - Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.
» Why Does Anything Exist? - Sequence of short essays on this topic.