On Universals: An Essay in Ontology

by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Ontology is a description of the most general structure of what there is. It is a description of a structure so general that every other discipline will deal with some detail of the structure.

Genres: Philosophy, Metaphysics

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1970

About the author

Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, and Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy, epistemology and theology and philosophy of religion.