The Cambridge Companion to OckhamPaul Vincent Spade The Franciscan William of Ockham was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. 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. |
Contents
The Academic and Intellectual Worlds of Ockham | 17 |
Some Aspects of Ockhams Logic | 31 |
Semantics and Mental Language | 53 |
Is There Synonymy in Okhams Mental Language? | 76 |
Ockhams Nominalist Metaphysics Some Main Themes | 100 |
Ockhams Semantics and Ontology of the Categories | 118 |
Ockhams Philosophy of Nature | 143 |
The Mechanisms of Cognition Ockham on Mediating Species | 168 |
Ockham on Will Nature and Morality | 245 |
Natural Law and Moral Omnipotence | 273 |
The Political Writings | 302 |
Ockham on Faith and Reason | 326 |
Ockhams Repudiation of Pelagianism | 350 |
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Citations of Works Attributed to Ockham | 397 |
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Ockhams Misunderstood Theory of Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition | 204 |
Ockhams Ethical Theory | 227 |
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abstractive cognition according to Ockham acts of apprehension acts of intuitive Adams agent Aquinas argues argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's Avignon Boehner Brev categorematic causal cause Chatton Christian claim concepts Connex connotative terms copula creatures Dial discussion distinct divine command doctrine entities example exist Expos faith false judgment Franciscan Giles of Rome God's grace human Ibid intellect intuitive and abstractive intuitive cognition John Duns Scotus Kilcullen logical McGrade and Kilcullen medieval mental language mental sentence mental synonymy mental terms modal moral virtue motion natural law natural reason nill object Ockham's Razor Ockham's theory Ockham's view ontological ontological commitment Pelagianism personal supposition phantasm philosophical Phys pope possible predicate principles propositions Quodl rational reject relation right reason Scotus semantic semi-Pelagianism sense sensible species sensory Sent signify singular Socrates Spade species account theology thing tion true truth conditions universal Walter Chatton William Ockham William of Ockham
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Page 16 - ... Pope. Let us close this short sketch with the words in which Ockham expressed his ideal of a commonwealth of all nations : 'Therefore, he is not truly zealous for the common good, who does not desire and work, as far as he can in his station, for the whole world to be subject to one monarch'.1 * * * Ockham's philosophy had an enormous influence. But it seems that he had few disciples. It is difficult to find an 'Ockhamist' school in the same sense as we encounter a Thomist or Scotist school....