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Buffalo Ontology Site - http://wings.buffalo.edu/philosophy/ontology/
Information on ontology, on the history of ontology, and on contemporary ontology and its applications.

Metaphysics of Quality - http://www.moq.org/
Robert M. Pirsig deals with the fundamentals of existence and attempts to provide a more coherent system for understanding reality than current paradigms allow.

Ontology. A Resource Guide for Philosophers - http://www.formalontology.it/
Resources on the development of ontology, especially in the twentieth century.

PhilSci Archive: Idealist Philosophy: What is Real ? - http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001216/01/reality.html
Paper by Axel Randrup defending idealism and arguing that materialism leads to logical contradictions, which closes by considering the implications of this for religion.

Qualia: The Knowledge Argument - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia-knowledge/
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.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Abstract Objects - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/abstract-objects/
Survey of attempts to draw the distinction between concrete and abstract objects; by Gideon Rosen.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Events - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/events/
Survey of philosophical views on the character and status of events; by Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Existence - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existence/
Survey article by Barry Miller.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Holes - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/
An interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Physicalism - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/
Discussion of the thesis that everything is physical; by Daniel Stoljar.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Identity of Indiscernibles - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-indiscernible/
A principle of analytic ontology first explicitly formulated by Leibniz. It states that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Tropes - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tropes/
An article describing tropes; by John Bacon.

The Metaphysics of Blue - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5243/
On the nature of consciousness - looking for soul in a soulless world.

The Shift of Aspect in Language and Thought - http://www.shift-of-aspect-in-language-and-thought.net
Examines the role of this ubiquitous but neglected feature of expression and perception, suggesting that by a shift of aspect reality is both mental and physical.

What is Ontology? - http://www.formalontology.it/section_4.htm
Collected definitions, from leading philosophical reference works and from philosophers from Wolff to Husserl.

Why Does Anything Exist? - http://www.hedweb.com/nihilism/
Sequence of short essays on this topic.

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