Ockham's ‘Summa Logicae' - A Critical Guide

This Critical Guide to Ockham's seminal philosophical masterpiece on logic, language, and ontology is the first collection of essays devoted to the work. It covers a range of topics, providing both fresh perspectives on existing debates and new contributions on topics that have not yet entered mainstream scholarship on Ockham.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Metaphysical methodology in Ockham's Summa logicae I: against the semantics-first reading of Ockham's nominalism Susan Brower-Toland; 2. Ockham and syncategoremata Calvin G. Normore; 3. Ockham on metalanguage J. T. Paasch; 4. Ockham's moderate modism: modes of signifying in the summa logicae Milo Crimi; 5. Relations in Summa logicae Rondo Keele; 6. The threat of pernicious ambiguity - supposition and use in Ockham's mental speech Jon Borndholt and Sonja Schierbaum; 7. Ontology and Ockham's account of truth conditions for tensed propositions Nate Bulthuis; 8. Ockham's theory of the categorical syllogism Paul Thom; 9. Ockham's modal logic Lu Jiang; 10. Theory of demonstration: what is demonstrable in a contingent world? Joël Biard; 11. The obligationes of William of Ockham Sara L. Uckelman; 12. Ockham on the liar paradox Riccardo Strobino; 13. Ockham on figurative discourse Claude Panaccio; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: Panaccio Claude (Editor), Jenny Pelletier (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009288767
• ISBN: 978-1-009-28876-7
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Critical Guides
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Theology, Classical texts, Philosophy: logic, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Ancient, classical and medieval texts, Medieval Western philosophy