Review of the International Conference “Modern Ontology — V: Being and Essence” 18–20 June 2012, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The fifth conference in the series “Contemporary ontology” was devoted to the problems of relations of existence and essence in such aspects as the relation of existence and essence from the point of view of several fundamental contemporary approaches. These approaches include phenomenological and analytical perspective; classical and non-classical ontology; static and dynamic representation. The declared theme has been extended by discussing the problems of multitude, of absolute and relative, the formally logical and philosophical nature of problems of existence.