William Ockham on metaphysics
Subtitle: the science of being and God
By: by Jenny E. Pelletier
Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters -- Bd. 109
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9789004230156; 9789004230163
Subjects: Metaphysics
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.