William Ockham on metaphysics : the science of being and God / by Jenny E. Pelletier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pelletier, Jenny E.

Series:

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 109.

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 109

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349.

William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Jenny E. Pelletier

Introduction / Jenny E. Pelletier

1 Metaphysics as a Science / Jenny E. Pelletier

2 The Concept of Being / Jenny E. Pelletier

3 The Predication of the Term ‘Being’ / Jenny E. Pelletier

4 Metaphysics and Theology / Jenny E. Pelletier

Conclusion / Jenny E. Pelletier

Bibliography / Jenny E. Pelletier

Index / Jenny E. Pelletier.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289 ) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-85436-8

90-04-23016-5

OCLC:

821180590

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004230163 DOI