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Index of Arguments and of the Philosophers

Table of Modern Ontologists (PDF)

Introduction

Theory and History of Ontology, created April 13, 2000, moved August 13, 2010 from www.formalontology.it to a new address: www.ontology-2.com

The site is available in two different location (the content is identical): at a European address (www.ontology-2.com) and at an address in the United States (www.ontology-2.com); a mobile version is also available (m.ontology.co)

The site contains: 291 web pages (166 contains the Bibliographies), 13 essays in PDF format, and more than 13.000 bibliographic references; it is best viewed with a recent version of one of the following browsers: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Safari.

I am currently adding to the existing Bibliographies abstracts or quotations that will, I think, facilitate study for the truly interested readers.

There are also two sites (currently under development) for, respectively, Italian (www.ontologia.co) and French (www.ontologie.co) readers, that will contain bibliographical information and references to works published in the cited languages.

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RELATED SITES

Two sites (currently under development) which will be devoted to studies on Ontology in Italian and French:

Teoria e Storia dell'Ontologia

Théorie et Histoire de l'Ontologie

Last modified: Wednesday, May 16, 2012