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Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham

Author : John Lee Longeway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268034153
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham written by John Lee Longeway and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes available for the first time an English translation of William Ockham's work on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, which contains his theory of scientific demonstration and philosophy of science. John Lee Longeway also includes an extensive commentary and a detailed history of the intellectual background to Ockham's work in the Latin Middle Ages. Longeway puts Ockham into context by providing a scholarly account of the reception and study of the Posterior Analytics in the Latin Middle Ages, with a detailed discussion of Robert Grosseteste, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Giles of Rome. In a series of appendices, Longeway includes shorter translations of some important related work by Giles of Rome and John of Cornwall. In his introductory discussion, Longeway examines the exact character of the highest sort of demonstration (demonstratio potissima), the relations of the empirical sciences to mathematics, natural causation and the manner in which natural laws come to be known, the possibility of natural knowledge, our knowledge of God, and the relation of theology to the other sciences. Longeway discusses the way in which scientific epistemology and theory of demonstration corresponds to the metaphysical position of its interpreter, in particular to the Neoplatonism of Grosseteste, the radical Aristotelianism of Giles of Rome and Albert the Great, the more moderate Aristotelianism of Aquinas, and the nominalistic empiricism of Ockham. Throughout the book, Longeway makes a case for Ockham's importance as the founder of Empiricism in the West.

Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham

Author : John Longeway
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham written by John Longeway and published by University of Notre Dame Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an English translation of William of Ockham's work on 'Aristotle's Posterior Analytics', which contains his theory of scientific demonstration and philosophy of science. This book also includes a detailed history of the intellectual background to Ockham's work in the Latin Middle Ages.

Theory of Demonstration According to William Ockham

Author : Damascene Webering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theory of Demonstration According to William Ockham written by Damascene Webering and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

William Ockham on Metaphysics

Author : Jenny Pelletier
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004230165
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book William Ockham on Metaphysics written by Jenny Pelletier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In William Ockham on Metaphysics, 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 the science that studies all beings and their most general properties. Ockham was considered by some to be profoundly skeptical of metaphysics. Recent scholarship tends to focus on regional metaphysical issues (e.g. universals, relations), logic or semantics, theory of cognition, concepts, mental language. Jenny Pelletier provides a positive interpretation of Ockham on metaphysics as such that enriches our current understanding of this seminal medieval thinker.

William Ockham on Metaphysics

Author : Jenny Pelletier
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004230157
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book William Ockham on Metaphysics written by Jenny Pelletier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

William of Ockham: Questions on Virtue, Goodness, and the Will

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108588107
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book William of Ockham: Questions on Virtue, Goodness, and the Will written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William of Ockham (d. 1347) was among the most influential and the most notorious thinkers of the late Middle Ages. In the twenty-seven questions translated in this volume, most never before published in English, he considers a host of theological and philosophical issues, including the nature of virtue and vice, the relationship between the intellect and the will, the scope of human freedom, the possibility of God's creating a better world, the role of love and hatred in practical reasoning, whether God could command someone to do wrong, and more. In answering these questions, Ockham critically engages with the ethical thought of such predecessors as Aristotle, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and John Duns Scotus. Students and scholars of both philosophy and historical theology will appreciate the accessible translations and ample explanatory notes on the text.

Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy

Author : Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474258336
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge in Medieval Philosophy written by Henrik Lagerlund and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy's greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it follows conceptions of knowledge that have been proposed, defended, replaced, and proposed anew by ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophers. This volume covers the influence of Aristotle and Augustine during the Middle Ages. With original insights into the vast sweep of ways in which philosophers have sought to understand knowledge, The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History embraces what is vital and evolving within contemporary epistemology. Overseen by an international team of leading philosophers and featuring 50 specially-commissioned chapters, this is a major collection on one of philosophy's defining topics.

Ockham's Theory of Terms

Author : William Ockham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781587316067
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Ockham's Theory of Terms written by William Ockham and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism, the school of thought that denies that universals have any reality apart from the individual things signified by the universal or general term. Ockham's Summa Logicae was intended as a basic text in philosophy, but it's originality and scope encompass his whole system of philosophy. Yet the paucity of English translations and the structural complexity of the Latin have made the Summa, until now, almost completely inaccessible. Here Michael Loux has translated the first part of the Summa, one of the most original and influential medieval texts in logic. Preceding the translation are two essys: The first focuses on Ockham's ontology; the second deals with his theory of supposition. They are meant to introduce the reader to the central themes of Part I of the Summa, but, while introductory, these essays incorporate a controversial interpretation of Ockham which is intended to suggest a continuity between his philosophy and the work of contemporary analytic philosophy. Book jacket.

The Physics of William of Ockham

Author : Goddu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004452249
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Physics of William of Ockham written by Goddu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy

Author : Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 140209728X
Total Pages : 1448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy written by Henrik Lagerlund and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first reference ever devoted to medieval philosophy. It covers all areas of the field from 500-1500 including philosophers, philosophies, key terms and concepts. It also provides analyses of particular theories plus cultural and social contexts.

Ockham's Nominalism

Author : Claude Panaccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190078987
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ockham's Nominalism written by Claude Panaccio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William of Ockham is a towering figure in the history of philosophy and he is commonly seen as the most important nominalist thinker of the Middle Ages. His nominalism basically consists in three theses: there are no universals in the external world, no relations either, and no quantities considered as distinct entities. This book provides an introduction to Ockham's defence of these positions and to what they amount to in metaphysics, semantics, and epistemology. It thus displays the outlines of a rich and carefully crafted nominalist system that is still of great philosophical interest today. All along in so doing, it situates Ockham's thought with respect to several salient contemporary debates in philosophy"--

Descartes's Method

Author : Tarek R. Dika
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192696947
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Descartes's Method written by Tarek R. Dika and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descartes's Method develops an ontological interpretation of Descartes's method as a dynamic and, within limits, differentiable problem-solving cognitive disposition or habitus, which can be actualized or applied to different problems in various ways, depending on the nature of the problem. Parts I-II develop the foundations of an habitual interpretation of Descartes's method, while Parts III-V demonstrate the fruits of such an interpretation in metaphysics, natural philosophy, and mathematics. The first book to draw on the recently discovered Cambridge manuscript of Descartes's Rules for the Direction of the Mind, Descartes's Method concretely demonstrates the efficacy of Descartes's method in the sciences and the underlying unity of Descartes's method from Rules for the Direction of the Mind to Principles of Philosophy (1644).

Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning

Author : David Bronstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019872490X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning written by David Bronstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Bronstein sheds new light on Aristotle's 'Posterior Analytics' - one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of Western philosophy. He argues that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest - knowledge and learning - and goes on to highlight Plato's influence on Aristotle's text.

Descartes's Method

Author : Tarek Dika
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192869868
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Descartes's Method written by Tarek Dika and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tarek Dika presents a systematic account of Descartes' method and its efficacy. He develops an ontological interpretation of Descartes's method as a dynamic and, within limits, differentiable problem-solving cognitive disposition or habitus, which can be actualized or applied to different problems in various ways, depending on the nature of the problem. Parts I-II of the book develop the foundations of such an habitual interpretation of Descartes's method, while Parts III-V demonstrate the fruits of such an interpretation in metaphysics, natural philosophy, and mathematics. This is the first book to draw on the recently-discovered Cambridge manuscript of Descartes's Rules for the Direction of the Mind (1620s): it gives a concrete demonstration of the efficacy of Descartes's method in the sciences and of the underlying unity of Descartes's method from Rules for the Direction of the Mind to Principles of Philosophy (1644).

Medieval Allegory as Epistemology

Author : Marco Nievergelt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192665839
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Allegory as Epistemology written by Marco Nievergelt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medieval Allegory as Epistemology, Marco Nievergelt argues that late medieval dream-poetry was able to use the tools of allegorical fiction to explore a set of complex philosophical questions regarding the nature of human knowledge. The focus is on three of the most widely read and influential poems of the later Middle Ages: Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose; the Pélerinages trilogy of Guillaume de Deguileville; and William Langland's vision of Piers Plowman in its various versions. All three poets grapple with a collection of shared, closely related epistemological problems that emerged in Western Europe during the thirteenth century, in the wake of the reception of the complete body of Aristotle's works on logic and the natural sciences. This study therefore not only examines the intertextual and literary-historical relations linking the work of the three poets, but takes their shared interest in cognition and epistemology as a starting point to assess their wider cultural and intellectual significance in the context of broader developments in late medieval philosophy of mind, knowledge, and language. Vernacular literature more broadly played an extremely important role in lending an enlarged cultural resonance to philosophical ideas developed by scholastic thinkers, but it is also shown that allegorical narrative could prompt philosophical speculation on its own terms, deliberately interrogating the dominance and authority of scholastic discourses and institutions by using first-person fictional narrative as a tool for intellectual speculation.

Predestination

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619124
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Predestination written by Matthew Levering and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Predestination has been the subject of perennial controversy among Christians, although in recent years theologians have shied away from it as a divisive and unedifying topic. In this book Matthew Levering argues that Christian theological reflection needs to continue to return to the topic of predestination, for two reasons: Firstly, predestinarian doctrine is taught in the New Testament. Reflecting the importance of the topic in many strands of Second Temple Judaism, the New Testament authors teach predestination in a manner that explains why Christian theologians continually recur to this topic. Secondly, the doctrine of predestination provides a way for Christian theologians to reflect upon two fundamental affirmations of biblical revelation. The first is God's love, without any deficiency or crimp, for each and every rational creature; the second is that God from eternity brings about the purpose for which he created us, and that he permits some rational creatures freely and permanently to rebel against his love. When theologians reflect on these two key biblical affirmations, they generally try to unite them in a logical synthesis. Instead, Levering argues, it is necessary to allow for the truth of each side of the mystery, without trying to blend the two affirmations into one. Levering pairs his discussion of Scripture with ecumenically oriented discussion of the doctrine of predestination in through the ages through the figures of Origen, Augustine, Boethius, John of Damascus, Eriugena, Aquinas, Ockham, Catherine of Siena, Calvin, Molina, Francis de Sales, Leibniz, Bulgakov, Barth, Maritain, and Balthasar. He concludes with a constructive chapter regarding the future of the doctrine.

Proofs of God

Author : Matthew Levering
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493403362
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Proofs of God written by Matthew Levering and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading theologian Matthew Levering presents a thoroughgoing critical survey of the proofs of God's existence for readers interested in traditional Christian responses to the problem of atheism. Beginning with Tertullian and ending with Karl Barth, Levering covers twenty-one theologians and philosophers from the early church to the modern period, examining how they answered the critics of their day. He also shows the relevance of the classical arguments to contemporary debates and challenges to Christianity. In addition to students, this book will appeal to readers of apologetics.