Author:William of Ockham

William of Ockham
(?–1349)

William of Ockham

Works

Philosophical writings

• Summa logicae (c. 1323), Paris 1448, Bologna 1498, Venice 1508, Oxford 1675.
  • See version on Latin wikisource.
• 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

• "Occam or Ockham, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "William of Ockham," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Occam, William of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Parsimony, Law of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• The Myth of Occam's Razor
• "Ockham, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.