The Cambridge companion to Ockham
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instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 0972.01011
publication date: 2001-03-20T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A35
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03A05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01-06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-06
zbMATH DE Number: 1579197
zbMATH Keywords: Cambridge companion
zbMATH Keywords: nominalism
zbMATH Keywords: Ockham's razor
zbMATH Keywords: Aristotelism
zbMATH Keywords: medieval logic
zbMATH Keywords: semantics
zbMATH Keywords: mathematical ontology
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title: The Cambridge companion to Ockham
published in: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
review text: This companion is devoted to \textit{William of Ockham} (c. 1288-1347), besides \textit{Thomas Aquinas} and \textit{John Duns Scotus} the most important figure in the philosophy of the Middle Ages. The volume contains 15 papers on central aspects of Ockham's work, covering his biography and the context of his writing (by \textit{W. J. Courtenay}), Ockham's semantics and his concept of a mental language (\textit{C. Panaccio}, \textit{D. Chalmers}, \textit{D. Klima}), his ideas on cognition (\textit{E. Stump}, \textit{E. Karger}), his nominalist metaphysics (\textit{P. V. Spade}), his ethics and political philosophy (\textit{P. King}, \textit{M. Mccord Adams}, \textit{A. S. Mcgrade}, \textit{J. Kilcullen}), and his theological writings (\textit{A. J. Freddoso}, \textit{R. Wood}).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE\textit{C. G. Normore} surveys in his contribution on ``Some aspects of Ockham's logic'' (pp. 31-52) scope and conceptions of his ``Summa logicae''. \textit{A. Goddu} deals in a short passage of ``Ockham's philosophy of nature'' (pp. 143-167) with his philosophy of mathematics (pp. 150-154) discussing his denial of the existence of quantity as a thing which can be distinguished from a thing that is quantified.
reviewed by: Volker Peckhaus
description: scientific article