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.
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.
Editorial note; Editor's introduction; Bibliographical note; The Notion of Knowledge or Science; Epistemological problems; Logical problems; The theory of 'Supposito'; Truth; Inferential Operations; Being, Essence and Existence; The Possibility of a Natural Theology; The Proof of God's Existence; God's Causality and Foreknowledge; Physics and Ethics; Appendices.
Stephen F. Brown is Professor of Theology, Boston College.
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