Review of the International VI Russian Congress of Philosophy Philosophy in Contemporary World: Dialogue of World Views”. Section “Philosophical Ontology — 1” 27–30 June 2012, Nizhni Novgorod

Participants of the conference attempted to define the place of ontology in the historic-philosophical tradition as well as in modern philosophical thought: from redefining its role as main philosophical discipline to specification of the meaning of the term “ontology” and defining its subject. A number of reports touched on such topics as ontological grounds of consciousness, correlation of ontology and dialectics, ontology and transcendentalism, nature of time as the basis of ontology; idea of ontology not as philosophical science among others, but instead as what is related to representation and is even before the formation of science.