William Ockham on Metaphysics

The Science of Being and God

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ID18968869
AuthorsJenny Pelletier (0000-0003-4305-9478, corresponding author), Jenny E Pelletier
Year2013
Pages297
Publication date2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWilliam Ockham on metaphysics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004230163
OpenAlexW4236742071
ISBN9789004230163
Open LibraryOL25393457M
Google Booksykx14NYYMN8C
LanguageEN
Citations received9

In this book, Jenny Pelletier offers an account of Ockham's concept of metaphysics as it emerges throughout his philosophical and theological work. She argues that Ockham (c. 1287-1347) believed metaphysics to be a fruitful branch of philosophy and gives a preliminary description of its distinctive subject-matter. Metaphysics is a science that studies all beings and their most general features. It works out a general ontology that includes God. Ockham has long been considered by some to be profoundly skeptical of metaphysical knowledge. Recent scholarship tends to focus on his logic (semantics), theory of cognition, concepts, mental language. Jenny Pelletier provides a positive interpretation of Ockham on metaphysics that enriches our current understanding of this seminal medieval thinker

Epistemology · Metaphysics · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy · William of Ockham (ca. 1285-ca. 1349) · William, of ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349

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