The late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the Age of Enlightenment produced a wealth of great thinkers whose ideas have endured through time. Beginning with William of Ockham, this volume…

This volume presents an annotated translation of William of Ockham's treatise on the divine ideas, a key concept in medieval philosophy. Drawing on the Aristotelian notion of abstraction, Ockham argues…

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The defining critical text, Dialogus Part I, Book 6, of Ockham's masterpiece deals with the inquisition and punishment of a Pope betraying the fundamental principles of the Christian Commonwealth he…

By examining Ockham’s original writings and major contemporary scholarship, the author knits together the seemingly isolated topics to present a unified picture of a medieval mind which had made enormous…

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…

This is an English translation of the Quodlibetal Questions of William of Ockham, reflections on a variety of topics in logic, ontology, natural philosophy, philosophical psychology, moral theory and theology.

Discussing to what degree public opinion is manipulated by the press, the rise of the tabloid press and the economics of modern advertising, this Volume reprints It Isn’t Done: Taboo…