Josep Ferrater Mora and Intellectual History: method, ontology and ontologies

Abstract

Ferrater Mora’s ontology has already been described and explored. However, its connection with methodology and epistemology from the intellectual history perspective is not well known. This paper is a first attempt to bridge these different aspects. It contains a summary of his ontology, followed by an account of the context and developments of intellectual history in the early fifties. Some comments are added at the end concerning the role and construction of computational ontologies in philosophy.

Key words: Ferrater Mora, intellectual history, ontology, computational ontologies, semantics, methodology.