The Cambridge companion to Ockham (Q2706544)

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.