Ockham on Aristotle's Physics
Author : William (of Ockham)
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Ockham's Razors
Author : Elliott Sober
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 31,26 MB
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 131636853X
Book Description
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.
The Physics of William of Ockham
Author : Goddu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 13,69 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004452249
Book Description
The Physics of Duns Scotus
Author : Richard Cross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198269748
Book Description
This text contains detailed discussion and analysis of Dun Scotus's accounts of the nature of matter and the structure of material substance. His views on these matters are sophisticated and highly original.
The Cambridge Companion to Ockham
Author : Paul Vincent Spade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1999-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521587907
Book Description
Offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of this medieval philosopher's thought.
Ockham Explained
Author : Rondo Keele
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812696506
Book Description
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 Philosophy of William of Ockham
Author : Armand Augustine Maurer
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780888444165
Book Description
William Ockham on Metaphysics
Author : Jenny Pelletier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 16,35 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9004230165
Book Description
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.
Ockham and Ockhamism
Author : William J. Courtenay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2008-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9047443578
Book Description
Long thought to be the most important medieval philosopher and theologian after Scotus and the founder of late medieval Nominalism, the meaning and influence of William of Ockham’s thought have become matters of intense debate in recent years. After a survey of the changing assessment of Nominalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and a new understanding of twelfth-century Nominalism with related elements in the thought of Augustine and Anselm, this book examines the reception of Ockham’s thought at Oxford and Paris, the crisis over Ockhamism at Paris in the 1335 to 1345 period, and concludes with an examination of the legacy of Ockhamist thought in the late medieval period.
Time for Aristotle
Author : Ursula Coope
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191530123
Book Description
What is the relation between time and change? Does time depend on the mind? Is the present always the same or is it always different? Aristotle tackles these questions in the Physics, and Time for Aristotle is the first book in English devoted to this discussion. Aristotle claims that time is not a kind of change, but that it is something dependent on change; he defines it as a kind of 'number of change'. Ursula Coope argues that what this means is that time is a kind of order (not, as is commonly supposed, a kind of measure). It is universal order within which all changes are related to each other. This interpretation enables Coope to explain two puzzling claims that Aristotle makes: that the now is like a moving thing, and that time depends for its existence on the mind. Brilliantly lucid in its explanation of this challenging section of the Physics, Time for Aristotle shows his discussion to be of enduring philosophical interest.
