William Ockham

William Ockham

by Adams, Marilyn McCord

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Title Statements

  • Full title :William Ockham / Marilyn McCord Adams.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1989, ©1987.
  • Edition:Paperback ed

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Includes indexes.

The Physical Object

  • Description:2 volumes (xx, 1402 pages) : : illustrations ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0268019452, 9780268019457
  • oclc:ocn877736288
  • LC Classification:B765.O34
  • Dewey Decimal:189/.4

Table of Contents

V. 1. Problem of universals. -- Universals are not things other than names. -- Names and concepts. -- Universals, conventionalism, and similarity. -- Ockham's ontological program. -- Quantity. -- Relations. -- Quality. -- Evaluation of Ockham's ontological program. -- Properties of terms. -- Logic of propositions. -- Arguments. -- Conceptual empiricism and direct realism. -- Certainty and scepticism in Ockham's epistemology.

V. 2. Metaphysical structure of composite substances. -- Matter, quantity, and individualism. -- Intensification and reduction of forms. -- Efficient causality. -- Motion: its ontological status and its causes. -- On time. -- Divine simplicity, divine attributes, and the meaning of divine names. -- Faith and reason. -- Is God a knower? -- Divinde ideas and God's knowledge of creatures. -- Divine ideas, divine power, and the ground of possibility. -- Can God know more than He knows? A matter of types and tokens. -- Divine omniscience, human freedom, and future contingency. -- Divine omnipotence analyzed. -- Divine omnipotence and the charge of theologism. -- Grace, merit, and the freedom of God. -- Predestination, reprobation, and freedom; human and divine.

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