[PDF] Ockham Explained eBook

Author : Rondo Keele
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 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.

Author : Rondo Keele
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812697103

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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.

Author : Bill Martin
Publisher :
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Communism
ISBN : 9780812696509

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"Argues for a revised Marxism that takes ethics rather than political economy and scientific investigation as its core"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Elliott Sober
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 2015-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 131636853X

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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.

Author : Thomas Michael Osborne
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813221781

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This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

Author : Dudley Knowles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521395984

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This collection of new essays explores the nature of explanation and causality. It provides a stimulating and wide ranging debate on one of the central issues that has concerned philosophers and scientists alike--the epistemological nature of their enquiries. The volume not only sheds light on some of the general questions involved, but also addresses specific problems involved in explanation in different fields--physics, biology, psychology and the social sciences. Explanation and its Limits is an up-to-date, sharply focused and comprehensive review for all philosophers, scientists and social scientists interested in methodology.

Author : William J. Courtenay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9004168303

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Against the background of changing assessments of Nominalism and its meanings before Ockham, this book examines the reception of Ockhama (TM)s thought at Oxford and Paris, the crisis over Ockhamism at Paris around 1340, and the legacy of Ockhamist thought into the sixteenth century.

Author : Paul Vincent Spade
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 1999-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521587907

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

Author : Jenny Pelletier
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 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.