Author:William of Ockham

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William of Ockham (1288–1348)

English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher.

William of Ockham

Works

Philosophical writings

• Summa logicae (c. 1323), Paris 1448, Bologna 1498, Venice 1508, Oxford 1675.
• Quaestiones in octo libros physicorum (before 1327), Rome 1637.
• Summulae in octo libros physicorum (before 1327), Venice 1506.
• Quodlibeta septem (before 1327), Paris 1487.
• Expositio aurea super artem veterem Aristotelis, 1323.
• Major summa logices, Venice 1521.
• Quaestiones in quattuor libros sententiarum, Lyons, 1495.
• Centilogium theologicum, Lyons 1495.

Theological writings

• Questiones earumque decisiones, Lyons 1483.
• Quodlibeta septem, Paris 1487, Strasbourg 1491.
• Centilogium, Lyons 1494.
• De sacramento altaris and De corpore christi, Strasbourg 1491, Venice 1516.
• Tractatus de sacramento allans.

Political writings

• Opus nonaginta dierum (1332), Leuven 1481, Lyons 1495.
• Dialogus (begun in 1332) Paris 1476. Lyons 1495.
• Super potestate summi pontificis octo quaestionum decisiones (1344).
• Tractatus de dogmatibus Johannis XXII papae (1333–34).
• Epistola ad fratres minores (1334).
• De jurisdictione imperatoris in causis matrimonialibus, Heidelberg 1598.
• Breviloquium de potestate tyrannica (1346).
• De imperatorum et pontifcum potestate [also known as 'Defensorium'] (1348).

Works about William of Ockham

• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Occam or Ockham, William
• Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/William of Ockham
• 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Parsimony, Law of
• The Myth of Occam's Razor

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.