Ockham on Aristotle's Physics
Author : William (of Ockham)
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
The Physics of William of Ockham
Author : André Goddu
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Philosophy of nature
ISBN : 9789004069121
Book Description
William Ockham on Metaphysics
Author : Jenny Pelletier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 12,37 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.
The Physics of William of Ockham
Author : Goddu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 36,32 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9004452249
Book Description
The Instant of Change in Medieval Philosophy and Beyond
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,55 MB
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004368736
Book Description
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.
The Physics of Duns Scotus
Author : Richard Cross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 30,15 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.
Ockham's Razors
Author : Elliott Sober
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,65 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.
William of Ockham: Questions on Virtue, Goodness, and the Will
Author : William (of Ockham)
Publisher :
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108498388
Book Description
A collection of the influential ethical writings of medieval philosopher William of Ockham, published in English for the first time.
Philosophical Writings
Author : William (of Ockham)
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780872200784
Book Description
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.
William of Ockham: A Short Discourse on Tyrannical Government
Author : William (of Ockham)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,58 MB
Release : 1992-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521358033
Book Description
William of Ockham (c. 1285-c. 1347) was the most eminent and influential theologian and philosopher of his day, a giant in the history of political thought. He was a Franciscan friar who came to believe that the Avignonese papacy of John XXII had set out to destroy the religious ideal on which the Franciscan order was based: the complete poverty of Christ and the apostles. This is the first complete text by Ockham to be published in English. The Short Discourse is a passionate but compelling statement of Ockham's position on the most fundamental political problem of the medieval period: the relationship of supreme spiritual authority, as represented by the pope, to the autonomous secular authority claimed by the medieval empire and the emerging nation-states of Europe. Professor McGrade's introduction, and the notes on the translation make the volume wholly accessible to a modern readership, while a full bibliography and chronology are included as further aids to the reader.
