TY - BOOK ID - 8558674 TI - William Ockham on metaphysics : the science of being and God PY - 2012 VL - 109 SN - 01698028 SN - 9789004230156 9789004230163 9004230157 9004230165 1283854368 9781283854368 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Metaphysics. KW - Guillaume d'Ockham, KW - William, KW - Métaphysique KW - 1 GUILELMUS DE OCCAM KW - Filosofie. Psychologie--GUILELMUS DE OCCAM KW - 1 GUILELMUS DE OCCAM Filosofie. Psychologie--GUILELMUS DE OCCAM KW - Guglielmo, KW - Guilelmus, KW - Guilhelmus, KW - Guillelmus, KW - Gulielmus, KW - Occam, KW - Occam, Guillaume d', KW - Occam, William, KW - Occamus, Guilielmus, KW - Occhamus, Gulielmus, KW - Ockam, Guilhelmus de, KW - Ockham, William, KW - Okkam, Uilʹi︠a︡m, KW - Okkʻam, William, KW - Wilhelm, KW - William Okkʻam, KW - God KW - Ontology KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Guillaume, KW - Metaphysics KW - Métaphysique KW - Guillermo, KW - Guillaume d'Ockham KW - Métaphysique. KW - William, - of Ockham, - approximately 1285-approximately 1349 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8558674 AB - 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. ER -