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| 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.
| Author | : Jenny Pelletier |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2012-10-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004230165 |
In William Ockham on Metaphysics, Jenny Pelletier offers an account of Ockham's concept of metaphysics as it emerges throughout his philosophical and theological work. She argues that Ockham (c. 1287-1347) believed metaphysics to be a fruitful branch of philosophy and gives a preliminary description of its distinctive subject-matter. Metaphysics is the science that studies all beings and their most general properties. Ockham was considered by some to be profoundly skeptical of metaphysics. Recent scholarship tends to focus on regional metaphysical issues (e.g. universals, relations), logic or semantics, theory of cognition, concepts, mental language. Jenny Pelletier provides a positive interpretation of Ockham on metaphysics as such that enriches our current understanding of this seminal medieval thinker.
| 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.
| 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.
| Author | : Elliott Sober |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2015-07-23 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 131636853X |
Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in current physics, biology, and psychology. The razor also gets used outside of science - in everyday life and in philosophy. This book evaluates the principle and discusses its many applications. Fascinating examples from different domains provide a rich basis for contemplating the principle's promises and perils. It is obvious that simpler theories are beautiful and easy to understand; the hard problem is to figure out why the simplicity of a theory should be relevant to saying what the world is like. In this book, the ABCs of probability theory are succinctly developed and put to work to describe two 'parsimony paradigms' within which this problem can be solved.
| Author | : Johnjoe McFadden |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 358 |
| Release | : 2021-09-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1541620437 |
"In short, Life Is Simple is enthralling."--Michael Blastland, Prospect A biologist argues that simplicity is the guiding principle of the universe Centuries ago, the principle of Ockham’s razor changed our world by showing simpler answers to be preferable and more often true. In Life Is Simple, scientist Johnjoe McFadden traces centuries of discoveries, taking us from a geocentric cosmos to quantum mechanics and DNA, arguing that simplicity has revealed profound answers to the greatest mysteries. This is no coincidence. From the laws that keep a ball in motion to those that govern evolution, simplicity, he claims, has shaped the universe itself. And in McFadden’s view, life could only have emerged by embracing maximal simplicity, making the fundamental law of the universe a cosmic form of natural selection that favors survival of the simplest. Recasting both the history of science and our universe’s origins, McFadden transforms our understanding of ourselves and our world.
| Author | : William (of Ockham) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 373 |
| Release | : 2021-05-06 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1108498388 |
A collection of the influential ethical writings of medieval philosopher William of Ockham, published in English for the first time.
| Author | : William Ockham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Logic |
| ISBN | : 9781587316067 |
William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism, the school of thought that denies that universals have any reality apart from the individual things signified by the universal or general term. Ockham's Summa Logicae was intended as a basic text in philosophy, but it's originality and scope encompass his whole system of philosophy. Yet the paucity of English translations and the structural complexity of the Latin have made the Summa, until now, almost completely inaccessible. Here Michael Loux has translated the first part of the Summa, one of the most original and influential medieval texts in logic. Preceding the translation are two essys: The first focuses on Ockham's ontology; the second deals with his theory of supposition. They are meant to introduce the reader to the central themes of Part I of the Summa, but, while introductory, these essays incorporate a controversial interpretation of Ockham which is intended to suggest a continuity between his philosophy and the work of contemporary analytic philosophy. Book jacket.
| Author | : Katherine Tachau |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 450 |
| Release | : 2022-07-11 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9004451722 |
When William of Ockham lectured on Lombard’s Sentences in 1317-1319, he articulated a new theory of knowledge. Its reception by fourteenth-century scholars was, however, largely negative, for it conflicted with technical accounts of vision and with their interprations of Duns Scotus. This study begins with Roger Bacon, a major source for later scholastics’ efforts to tie a complex of semantic and optical explanations together into an account of concept formation, truth and the acquisition of certitude. After considering the challenges of Peter Olivi and Henry of Ghent, Part I concludes with a discussion of Scotus’s epistemology. Part II explores the alternative theories of Peter Aureol and William of Ockham. Part III traces the impact of Scotus, and then of Aureol, on Oxford thought in the years of Ockham’s early audience, culminating with the views of Adam Wodeham. Part IV concerns Aureol’s intellectual legacy at Paris, the introduction of Wodeham’s thought there, and Autrecourt’s controversies.
| 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
