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• - 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.
  
• - An article describing tropes; by John Bacon.
  
• - Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.
  
• - Survey article by Barry Miller.
  
• - An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists.
  
• - Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen.
  
• - Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.
  
• - An extensive resource site on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.
  
• - Paper by Axel Randrup defending idealism and arguing that materialism leads to logical contradictions, which closes by considering the implications of this for religion.
  
• - Robert M. Pirsig deals with the fundamentals of existence and attempts to provide a more coherent system for understanding reality than current paradigms allow.
  
• - A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.
  
• - Sequence of short essays on this topic.
  
• - On the nature of consciousness - looking for soul in a soulless world.
  
• - Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.
  
• - Notes on the relational element in the assertion that things exist. Patterned on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
  
• - Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.