The Cambridge Companion to Ockham

The Cambridge Companion to Ockham
Author: Paul Vincent Spade
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1999-12-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521587907

Offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of this medieval philosopher's thought.

The Sentences

The Sentences
Author: Peter Lombard (Bishop of Paris)
Publisher: PIMS
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2007
Genre: Creation
ISBN: 9780888442932

This volume makes available for the first time in English full translations of Book 2 of the Sentences. It consists of forty-four Distinctions and contains an introduction to Book 2, a list of the major chapter headings, and a bibliography.

Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham

Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham
Author: John Longeway
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN:

Offers an English translation of William of Ockham's work on 'Aristotle's Posterior Analytics', which contains his theory of scientific demonstration and philosophy of science. This book also includes a detailed history of the intellectual background to Ockham's work in the Latin Middle Ages.

Philosophical Writings

Philosophical Writings
Author: William (of Ockham)
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872200784

This volume contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. This edition includes textual markings referring readers to appendices containing changes in the Latin text and alterations found in the English translation that have been made necessary by the critical edition of Ockham's work published after Boehner prepared the original text. The updated bibliography includes the most important scholarship produced since publication of the original edition.

Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Author: Thomas Michael Osborne
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813221781

This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

The Political Thought of William Ockham

The Political Thought of William Ockham
Author: Arthur Stephen McGrade
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2002-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521522243

The English Franciscan, William of Ockham (c. 1285-1349), was one of the most important thinkers of the later middle agesThis book provides a coherent account of Ockham's aims and the principles operating in all his political works.

Ockham Explained

Ockham Explained
Author: Rondo Keele
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0812696506

Ockham Explained is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. His eventful and controversial life was marked by sharp career moves and academic and ecclesiastical battles. At 28, Ockham was a conservative English theologian focused obsessively on the nature of language, but by 40, he had transformed into a fugitive friar, accused of heresy, and finally protected by the German emperor as he composed incendiary treatises calling for strong limits on papal authority. This book provides a thorough grounding in Ockham's life and his many contributions to philosophy. It begins with an overview of the philosopher's youth and the Aristotelian philosophy he studied as a boy. Subsequent chapters cover his ideas on language and logic; his metaphysics and vaunted "razor," as well as his opponents' "anti-razor" theories; his invention of the church-state separation; and much more. The concluding chapter sums up Ockham's compelling philosophical personality and explains his modern appeal.

Mental Language

Mental Language
Author: Claude Panaccio
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0823272613

The notion that human thought is structured like a language, with a precise syntax and semantics, has been pivotal in recent philosophy of mind. Yet it is not a new idea: it was systematically explored in the fourteenth century by William of Ockham and became central in late medieval philosophy. Mental Language examines the background of Ockham's innovation by tracing the history of the mental language theme in ancient and medieval thought. Panaccio identifies two important traditions: one philosophical, stemming from Plato and Aristotle, and the other theological, rooted in the Fathers of the Christian Church. The study then focuses on the merging of the two traditions in the Middle Ages, as they gave rise to detailed discussions over the structure of human thought and its relations with signs and language. Ultimately, Panaccio stresses the originality and significance of Ockham's doctrine of the oratio mentalis (mental discourse) and the strong impression it made upon his immediate successors.

Quodlibetal Questions

Quodlibetal Questions
Author: William (of Ockham)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Logic
ISBN: 9780300075069

This book offers the first English translation of the Quodlibetal Questions of William of Ockham (c. 1285-1347)--reflections on a variety of topics in logic, ontology, natural philosophy, philosophical psychology, moral theory, and theology by one of the preeminent thinkers of the Middle Ages. It is based on the recent critical edition of Ockham's theological and philosophical works.