Ockham’s Summa Logicae
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Ockham’s Summa Logicae

A Critical Guide

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ockham’s Summa Logicae

A Critical Guide

About this book

William of Ockham's Summa Logicae (The Sum of Logic), composed in the mid-1320s, is a major work in the history of Western philosophy. It was highly influential for several centuries following its appearance. Ostensibly a textbook on logic, the work is an essential resource for understanding Ockham's philosophical project at large and contains numerous innovative ideas about thought, language, and ontology that are now attracting much interest in contemporary philosophy. Despite an abundant growth in Ockham scholarship in recent decades, this Critical Guide is the first collection of essays to be devoted to the Summa Logicae. The volume covers a wide range of topics, including nominalism, metalanguage, modes of signifying, Ockham's theory of the categorical syllogism, and modal logic. It provides both fresh perspectives on existing debates and new contributions on topics that have not yet entered mainstream scholarship on Ockham.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Imprints page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. List of Abbreviations of Ockham’s Works
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 Metaphysical Methodology in Ockham’s Summa Logicae I: Against the Semantics-First Reading of Ockham’s Nominalism
  11. Chapter 2 Ockham and Syncategoremata
  12. Chapter 3 Ockham on Metalanguage
  13. Chapter 4 Ockham’s Moderate Modism: Modes of Signifying in the Summa Logicae
  14. Chapter 5 Relations in Summa Logicae
  15. Chapter 6 The Threat of Pernicious Ambiguity: Supposition and Use in Ockham’s Mental Speech
  16. Chapter 7 Ontology and Ockham’s Account of Truth Conditions for Tensed Propositions
  17. Chapter 8 Ockham’s Theory of the Categorical Syllogism
  18. Chapter 9 Ockham’s Modal Logic
  19. Chapter 10 Theory of Demonstration: What Is Demonstrable in a Contingent World?
  20. Chapter 11 The Obligationes of William of Ockham
  21. Chapter 12 Ockham on the Liar Paradox
  22. Chapter 13 Ockham on Figurative Discourse
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index