The Cambridge Companion to Ockham

by Edited by Paul Vincent Spade

• ISBN13: 9780521587907
• ISBN10: 0521587905
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The Franciscan William of Ockham (c. 12881347) was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, he is regarded as one of the three main figures in medieval philosophy after around 1150. Ockham is important not only in the history of philosophy and theology, but also in the development of early modern science and of modern notions of property rights and church-state relations. This volume offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of Ockham's thought: logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics and natural philosophy, epistemology, ethics, action theory, political thought and theology. It is the first study of Ockham in any language to make full use of the new critical editions of his works, and to consider recent discoveries concerning his life, education, and influences.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Abbreviations and Method of Citation	xv
Introduction	1	(374)
Paul Vincent Spade
The Academic and Intellectual Worlds of Ockham	17	(14)
William J. Courtenay
Some Aspects of Ockham's Logic	31	(22)
Calvin G. Normore
Semantics and Mental Language	53	(23)
Claude Panaccio
Is There Synonymy in Ockham's Mental Language?	76	(24)
David Chalmers
Ockham's Nominalist Metaphysics: Some Main Themes	100	(18)
Paul Vincent Spade
Ockham's Semantics and Ontology of the Categories	118	(25)
Gyula Klima
Ockham's Philosophy of Nature	143	(25)
Andre Goddu
The Mechanisms of Cognition: Ockham on Mediating Species	168	(36)
Eleonore Stump
Ockham's Misunderstood Theory of Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition	204	(23)
Elizabeth Karger
Ockham's Ethical Theory	227	(18)
Peter King
Ockham on Will, Nature, and Morality	245	(28)
Marilyn Mccord Adams
Natural Law and Moral Omnipotence	273	(29)
A. S. Mcgrade
The Political Writings	302	(24)
John Kilcullen
Ockham on Faith and Reason	326	(24)
Alfred J. Freddoso
Ockham's Repudiation of Pelagianism	350	(25)
Rega Wood
Bibliography	375	(22)
Citations of Works Attributed to Ockham	397	(6)
Index	403