William Ockham on Metaphysics
William Ockham on Metaphysics

Author: Jenny Pelletier

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9004230165

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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.

The Cambridge Companion to Ockham
The Cambridge Companion to Ockham

Author: Paul Vincent Spade

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-12-13

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780521587907

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

William Ockham on Metaphysics
William Ockham on Metaphysics

Author: Jenny Pelletier

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9004230157

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In William Ockham on Metaphysics, Jenny E. Pelletier gives an account of Ockham's concept of metaphysics as the science of being and God as it emerges sporadically throughout his philosophical and theological work.

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

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13:

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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.

Ockham Explained
Ockham Explained

Author: Rondo Keele

Publisher: Open Court Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 0812696506

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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.

The Unity of Philosophical Experience
The Unity of Philosophical Experience

Author: Etienne Gilson

Publisher: Ignatius Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9780898707489

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"Lectures ... given at Harvard University in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword.

Later Medieval Metaphysics
Later Medieval Metaphysics

Author: Charles Bolyard

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013-02

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0823244725

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This book begins with standard ontological topics--such as the nature of existence--and of metaphysics generally, such as the status of universals, form, and accidents. What is the proper subject matter of metaphysical speculation? Are essence and existence really distinct in bodies? Does the body lose its unifying form at death? Can an accident of a substance exist in separation from that substance? Are universals real, and, if so, are they anything more than general concepts? Among the figures it examines are Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Walter Chatton, John Buridan, Dietrich of Freiburg, Robert Holcot, Walter Burley, and the 11th-century Islamic philosopher Ibn-Sina (Avicenna).There is also an emphasis on metaphysics broadly conceived. Thus, additional discussions of connected topics in medieval logic, epistemology, and language provide a fuller account of the range of ideas included in the later medieval worldview.

A Companion to the Responses to Ockham
A Companion to the Responses to Ockham

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-02-02

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9004309837

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This volume collects twelve chapters that present the multifaceted responses to the works of the William of Ockham in Oxford, Paris, Italy, and at the papal court in Avignon in the 14th century, and it assembles contributions on philosophers and theologians who all have criticized Ockham’s works at different points. In individual case studies it gives an exemplary overview over the reactions the Venerable Inceptor has provoked and also serves to better understand Ockham’s thought in its historical context. The topics range from ontology, psychology, theory of cognition, epistemology, and natural science to ethics and political philosophy. This volume demonstrates that the reactions to Ockham’s philosophy and theology were manifold, but one particular kind of reception is missing: unanimous approval. Contributors include Fabrizio Amerini, Stephen F. Brown, Nathaniel Bulthuis, Stefano Caroti, Laurent Cesalli, Alessandro D. Conti, Thomas Dewender, Isabel Iribarren, Isabelle Mandrella, Aurélien Robert, Christian Rode, and Sonja Schierbaum

The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond
The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-05-07

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9004368736

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Since antiquity, philosophers have investigated how change works. If a thing moves from one state to another, when exactly does it start to be in its new state, and when does it cease to be in its former one? In the late Middle Ages, the "problem of the instant of change” was subject to considerable debate and gave rise to sophisticated theories; it became popular and controversial again in the second half of the twentieth century. The studies collected here constitute the first attempt at tackling the different aspects of an issue that, until now, have been the object of seminal but isolated forays. They do so in through a historical perspective, offering both the medieval and the contemporary viewpoints. Contributors are Damiano Costa, Graziana Ciola, William O. Duba, Simo Knuuttila, Greg Littmann, Can Laurens Löwe, Graham Priest, Magali Roques, Niko Strobach, Edith Dudley Sylla, Cecilia Trifogli and Gustavo Fernández Walker.